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...that area--he's also huddling with Chávez over plans to turn South America into an integrated economic bloc along the lines of the European Union. Lula, in fact, is one of the few leaders both Bush and Chávez will listen to. "I joke with them and tell them their fight is very weird," Lula says, "because oil makes them so dependent on each other...
...more psychedelic work of Hendrix. For those used to high-quality recording, production value, and lyrical and musical transparency, this record may initially be alienating. The reward, however, only increases with every listen. For many Americans, Africa is still the Dark Continent in many ways; news networks tell us of famine, poverty, disease, and genocide, but rare is the occasion to hear the fruits of cultural cross-pollination emanating from such a truly obscure region. Perhaps it’s fitting then that this music that has traveled so far in obscurity should remain in relative obscurity in America...
...Republican rule and alongside a solidly Democratic Congress, the new administration promised something resembling a new consensus, one that would finally recapture the ideal of an active and charitable government, delivering on healthcare, union rights, and equal pay.Then came Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and Hillarycare. Then the Contract with America and the ’94 midterms. Then two government shutdowns. Then Monica Lewinsky. And then, and then, and then.By 1999, Democrats had been out-bullied by a Republican political machine capitalizing on the very same Culture War issues that led Reagan and Bush...
...ladies. “She’s so much better than me / I’m so unworthy of her!” goes the lament on “Why Does She Stay.” And while he once wasn’t above telling the ladies to look in their girlfriend’s purses for his number, this song reveals a Ne-Yo who’s wracked with guilt over—no joke—not doing the dishes. “I’ve gotta be a better...
...Famously complained on the Senate floor in 1982 that he hated living in crime-riddled Washington, D.C., saying, "If I had an opportunity to select where the capital would be, it certainly would not be here ... God forbid that anyone will ever tell me that the city of Washington is my home. It is not. I detest it. I really...