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LIKE MANY PEOPLE, I'm incapable of separating my dislike of world music from my dislike of the dinner parties at which it's played. But Egypt, winner in the Best Contemporary World Music category, is not the usual easy-listening exotica shrink-wrapped for the appetizer course. The melodies traipse from Cairo to Dakar; the lyrics are in Wolof; the liner notes offer translation and explain that the songs are about Sufi scholars, most of whom seem to practice a West African strain of Islamic Calvinism. Lest you fear learning something, N'Dour's voice sweeps and swells with...
...better try--and soon. Although the last thing Americans want is a defeat in Iraq, events may be sliding in that direction and we need to shrink the fallout. The nightmare scenario could begin now, or in the next two years as troops are withdrawn, or thereafter, abruptly or slowly. To speak of defeat is not to advocate it but to prepare to minimize...
...substantial way. And we are left angrily wondering whether there is anything, beyond payoffs, that can be done about this situation. You need only watch the smooth and civilized O?Grady, cracking little jokes as he fences with a lawyer, to understand that a few sessions with a shrink are not going to deliver anyone from the evil he represents. Included herein are the ritual appeals for an end to the celibate priesthood, but that?s not going to happen, either - it is an idea too firmly entrenched for successful attack. And one wonders if its end would...
...harder on it than, say, your senior thesis, you reluctantly dismantle your life-size replica of the John Harvard statue made entirely of empty Bud Light cans. Relieving it of its duty as a support for your broken futon, you pull out your calculus book and, after removing its shrink wrap and highlighting random paragraphs, place it on your desk open to the most complicated-looking page you can find. Finally, you remove your two favorite posters from the wall, including the one that depicts a keg and reads, “Alcohol: My Anti-Drug...
...Muslim population, the boom in low-cost air travel - have contributed at least as much to Europe's self-definition as have, for example, the shifting lines on a map that mark the expansion of the European Union. The frontiers that seem most important at one time shrink into insignificance at another. The demarcation between Western and Eastern Europe took on paramount importance during the cold war, but especially since 2004, when 10 nations, mostly of the old East bloc, joined the E.U., that line seems increasingly less relevant. The end of colonialism, too, has changed what Europe means...