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Such sunny enthusiasm pushes the album smoothly and gleefully from unrequited love odes (“Always On My Mind”) to breakup-makeup ballads (“All Over Again”) to the sing-along rocker “Anthem,” but no farther. With the exception of the richer, more imaginative musicality the band hints at with “Turn Smile Shift Repeat,”—the album’s best song—it’s all fun sugary stuff, easy to listen to but also easy...
...Music does make a difference in one way; it sways people emotionally. But for Bono that is no longer enough: "When you sing, you make people vulnerable to change in their lives. You make yourself vulnerable to change in your life. But in the end, you've got to become the change you want to see in the world. I'm actually not a very good example of that?I'm too selfish, and the right to be ridiculous is something I hold too dear?but still, I know it's true...
...Cheung Kong Group are major players in real estate, retailing, telecommunications and shipping?is never accused of setting his sights too low. Tom.com now aspires to become one of the world's largest producers and broadcasters of Chinese-language television programming. The only question, says Tom.com chief executive Sing Wang, is "whether we will become the largest Chinese media group or the largest Chinese media group that is ultimately part of an even greater media group. We are serious. We are not some start-up experiment...
...most popular song in Kenya last year was Nchi ya Kitu Kidogo (Country of Bribes), a sing-along tune about the ubiquity of corruption in everyday life. If you're trying to succeed in school, if you're sick in the hospital or if you lose your identity card, goes the lyric, to get anything done in Kenya you have to pay a bribe. Kenyans have adopted the song as an anti-officialdom anthem, and they flock to appearances by its 28-year-old writer and singer, Eric Wainaina. "We like it because it's the truth," says Judy Elahuya...
...market can really work." Unfortunately, it is a slow process in Kenya, in part because liberalization upsets so many vested interests. Real change will require more than a visiting vice squad. It will need a "complete cleanup, legally, morally, everything," says musician Wainaina. That would be something to sing about...