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...different kinds of African-American people," he says. "One is very conservative: they believe that R. and B. or soul music is only for black people. The other type is ready to listen to any kind of music, or they are ready to listen to R. and B. music sung by non-black people." He believes there are too few of the second category working in the recording industry today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Likes It Like That | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...North Korea is focusing on software. "There is money in IT," says Cho Myung Chul, a researcher at the Institute for International Economic Policy who defected from the North in 1994. KCC, established in 1990 by the late Great Leader Kim Il Sung, is the primary source. It has about 800 employees who appear to have an average age of 26, according to people who have visited the firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard-Line Software | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...milieu, offering paragraph-long portraits of dozens of Bing's coworkers. The book ends with "Road to Singapore," and one avidly awaits his consideration of Crosby's later film work: the rest of the "Road" series, the 1944 "Here Come the Waves" (with "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive" sung by Crosby and Sonny Tufts in blackface, one of the latest films to use minstrel racism in a contemporary setting), the priest pictures ("Going My Way" and "The Bells of St. Mary's") and the mature work of the mid-'50s, when Bing finally grew up as an actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Book on Bing Crosby: Bing Goes to the Movies | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

Korea's short-track speed-skating champion Kim Dong Sung will be celebrating his 22nd birthday on the ice during the Games. It's a fitting site. Kim, who won gold at the Nagano Olympics (plus a silver in the 5,000-m relay as a spare), has hardly left the rink since he took up skating at the age of eight, because it looked "like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Other to Watch | 2/4/2001 | See Source »

...explaining their method, "and then the producers finish it." Steeped in the influence of both avant-garde '70s new-wave bands and slick '90s techno, they have created an irresistible sound, in which synthesizers, samples and drum machines collide with catchy rock hooks and English lyrics that are half sung and half spoken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chicks, Not From Dixie | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

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