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Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan, and Martin Luther King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music. Odetta's stage presence was regal enough: planted onstage like an oak tree no one would dare cut down, wearing a guitar high on her chest, she could envelop Carnegie Hall with her powerful contralto as other vocalists might fill a phone booth. This was not some pruny European monarch but a stout, imperious queen of African-American music. She used that amazing instrument to bear witness to the pain and perseverance of her ancestors. Some folks sing songs. Odetta...
...Year's Eve, 1930, and raised in Los Angeles, Odetta Holmes had a big voice early on; she was schooled in opera from the age of 13. Appearing in a tour of the musical Finian's Rainbow in her late teens, she started to lend her classical and musical-stage training to the folk repertoire around 1950. Like Harry Belafonte, Leon Bibb and Makeba, Odetta played the swanker nightclubs before the big (mostly white) folk-music surge kicked in later in the decade. Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, the 1956 Tradition LP with definitively scalding interpretations of "Muleskinner, Easy Rider...
...freshman season in 2006, he took home the Ivy League Rookie of the Year. This year he was unanimously named to the all-Ivy First Team—his third straight year on that list. Akpan is the only player from the Ancient Eight to reach the semi-final stage for the Hermann Trophy. His 26 points this season was a conference-best.After being named a semifinalist last season, the Missouri Athletic Club put Akpan on their watch list before the 2008 season began.But despite having a season that would have pleased nearly any other player in the country, Akpan says...
...election, his long-term socialist project will be at risk, mostly because he has few if any viable successors. In recent years he's had to fend off dissidents within his party and coalition, and as a result, he's been reluctant to promote anyone else to the national stage. The Chavista rebels complain that the theatrics of revolution have superseded the obligations of governing in Venezuela. That concern is a big reason why the PSUV lost last week in large urban centers like Caracas and Maracaibo. In those areas, Chávez, to his credit, has spent billions...
...played fair: his government, for example, ruled that scores of opposition candidates were ineligible to run in last week's contests because of murky corruption charges. (And he himself was once willing to try extraconstitutional means to gain power: in 1992, as a paratrooper lieutenant colonel, he tried to stage a military coup.) To ensure the opposition's weakness, Chávez has loudly and rather petulantly declared that he'll use his ubiquitous levers of power to make the work of the new opposition governors and mayors especially difficult...