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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chant, finding common ground between the two distinct systems of tonality.The video accompaniment further emphasized the common ground between the two traditions, showing parallel shots of a priest gesturing with a prayer staff and a symphony conductor waving a baton. The priest, backlit by torchlight flickering through plumes of smoke, held the maqwammiya like a microphone as he chanted.But Astatke resists the temptation to blindly search for an Ethiopian counterpart to every European tradition. Although some first-generation immigrants may accuse him of polluting Ethiopian culture, Astatke deliberately avoids isolating the Ethiopian elements as museum pieces, frozen in their...

Author: By Mark A. Vanmiddlesworth, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ethio-Jazz from Either/Orchestra | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...smoking again,” Felicity said coldly. But something was uncoiling inside her. He had not been inside her sanctuary for months. “I have told you that I will not tolerate your cigar smoke anywhere in the house but where I cannot smell it. You can smoke in your study...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

...Tang is not without Harvard ties. Group member Method Man starred in the 2001 film “How High,” in which Method Man and his fellow rapper Red Man smoke marijuana to ace a college entrance exam and end up at Harvard...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wu-Tang Clan To Perform at College Concert | 3/30/2008 | See Source »

...freakish singing voice: pure, light and agile, with a tremendous range and perfect pitch. By 9 she was out on tour with her mother and stepfather. It was the dying days of vaudeville, and she belted out her high Fs on sticky, splintered stages to halls full of cigarette smoke, but by 13 she'd been asked to perform for the Queen, and by 17 the family mortgage was in her name. By 19 she was on Broadway in The Boy Friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Confessions of Mary Poppins | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

Against the dull thud-boom of rocket hits and ascending plumes of black smoke, Baghdad's fortified Green Zone rumbled with running soldiers and intermittent cries of "duck and take cover!" The area, where the U.S. embassy compound is located, is taking the worst bombardment in almost nine months. The American-backed Arabic news network al-Hura reported 18 rocket hits in and around the Green Zone on Thursday alone. Since Sunday, dozens have rained down on the compound, which houses both government and diplomatic offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baghdad Trembles as Basra Bleeds | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

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