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...what about the SUV drivers who never leave the dry pavement of the suburbs? I'll confess that they bother me too, sometimes, especially when they drive Hummers and other mutant monstrosities of the sport-utility class that have gone and ruined things for the rest of us. I understand that when people buy SUVs, they often delude themselves about how they will use them, imagining wind-whipped sand dunes and alpine lakes. But why in the world would someone need a Hummer? An armed incursion into downtown Tampa...
Robert Penn Warren wrote those words about a Cadillac, in a novel set in the 1930s. Back then Caddies were what you drove to announce that you had power, which is why people desired them even as they loathed their owners. Today another automobile is inspiring such passions. As sport-utility-vehicle owner Amy Dickie says, "The SUV is the Cadillac of the new millennium." Dickie is 30, brokers insurance in Atlanta and owns a Lexus RX 300. Ads hint the thing could haul a yak carcass across Tibetan grasslands; though it's one of the smaller SUVs...
...think of the new Broadway version of La Boheme, there's a better story of art-world devotion and backstabbing just across the river in Queens, N.Y. That's where the Museum of Modern Art is squeezed temporarily into a remodeled warehouse in a neighborhood where the sport-utility vehicle of choice is a dump truck. While its Manhattan headquarters is being reconstructed, MOMA is still managing to play host to the kind of exhibition that will bring hundreds of thousands of people to a place with no hot restaurant and no cabs. At a time when the museum blockbuster...
...tactic that exiled Zimbabweans are using again. Now the regime is fighting back, recruiting popular singers to make propaganda albums. But the artists who sign on "are hated [for] glorifying a corrupt, brutal system," says a Harare music critic. Thompson Tsodzo, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Education, Sport and Culture, admits the strategies are futile. "The government can't control music," he says. Artists like Mapfumo will be heard - on tapes copied until they're frayed, on short-wave radio, in bars and beerhalls. "Ministers had better listen," says Tsodzo. "Musicians are voicing what the people are saying." Mapfumo...
...celebrated with almost as much gusto as the Christian faith. Cars driving through the Hiawatha National Park were adorned with bumper stickers slogans like “A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject,” and many still sport post-September 11 flags. Gun culture is at its strongest in this part of the Midwest. The world’s largest sporting goods store, Cabelas, is in Western Michigan. The center of the store is dominated by a two-story high mountain and pays homage to the great service...