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Other slogans chanted at the protest included "Stir the cauldron, stoke the flame, Harvard you should be ashamed" and "It shouldn't take a magic spell to make these contract talks go well...
...first superstar from the Third World. He popularized, even personified, the rhythm of reggae and its roots in the pitiless poverty and mystical spiritual aspirations of the black Jamaican underclass. His voice sounded like sugarcane but cut like a switchblade. His love songs, like Guava Jelly, Stir It Up and Three Little Birds (included here in a previously unreleased and altogether ravishing alternate version), were lighted with a sexual fervor suggesting that passion itself is a kind of temporary redemption. His political songs, whether metaphorical (I Shot the Sheriff) or straight-out and out-front (War, with its lyric from...
...Stir It Up, written to his wife during an eight-month separation, was typical Marley: seductive, soulful and coolly intemperate. The rhythm is easy but the lyrics insinuate, cajole, insist: sexual congress as hip sacrament. It was Marley's unbridled and unapologetic partaking of this and other devotions, in fact, that gave him a kind of enigmatic, outlaw cast. In Jamaica he was not only a star, he was a political hero, a status that was confirmed by a medal from the U.N. and by the Jamaican Order of Merit, which he received in 1981. But long before that, back...
...thanks to their periodic breaks away from the terminal to satisfy nicotine cravings. And what goes on outside the office can be just as damaging as what happens in it. Observes Katy Keller, a physical therapist at the Miller Institute: "Injured people go home and talk on the telephone, stir the supper and carry the baby all at the same time. All this does is add to the physical stress of the workday...
Sculley hopes that Kaleida will overcome the problem. In late July, at an industry conference that Apple sponsored at Hakone, a mountain resort near Tokyo, he announced that starting next year his company will build CD-ROM players into most of its computers at cost to stir consumer interest. Says Chuck Goto, general manager of S.G. Warburg Securities in Tokyo: "The new technology is ready, but so far, no one has shown the imagination to figure out a product consumers want. Apple is trying to build the critical mass." If the company succeeds, it will be blazing an impressive trail...