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...seminal 1975 album, “Horses,” Smith appropriated Van Morrison’s “Gloria” and soul classic “Land of a Thousand Dances” for her own revolutionary purposes. Those two songs were no more than 15 years old when she reinvented them. But now, Smith has lost all touch with the present. Like her fellow Green Party yes-men (and yes-women), she lives in a frozen world, and she’s happily ignorant of what’s around...
...January, Thailand issued a “compulsory license” that would have allowed companies to produce generic versions of Kaletra and Aluvia, another AIDS drug, an action that was legal under World Trade Organization regulations and undertaken to make drugs more accessible to the population. Five hundred thousand people in Thailand are living with HIV, according to a United Nations report. Yesterday’s protesters demanded that Abbott Laboratories immediately re-register Kaletra, Aluvia, and six other medications it pulled from the Thailand market, and grant other developing nations the rights to produce generic versions...
...Each prototype designed by Palleroni and a team of University of Texas students has both a practical and symbolic function. The cypress table, for example, pays homage to the Crescent City's fame as a foodie heaven. The pews evoke places of worship, nearly a thousand of which were destroyed in hurricanes Rita and Katrina. "After the storms, churches were the one part of society that really worked in New Orleans," says Palleroni. "The government collapsed. The police disappeared. But the churches were there for people...
...unusually bitter retort for a man who for years has called the media "my base." Later, on the plane to Columbia, S.C., McCain trudged to Nagourney's seat, miming an exaggeratedly shamed face. His wife Cindy had sent him to apologize for being rude, he said. "A thousand pardons," he asked. But the conversation turned into another round of the same debate. McCain had said he was sorry for not calling the press corps once he knew the King show released a transcript a few hours before it aired. That's not good enough, a reporter argued, "You told...
...these questions are ultimately irrelevant. For better or worse, as the population of five million grows, SL is bound to garner more attention from politicians, who hardly need reminding that a few thousand votes one way or the other can make the difference. In a tight election campaign, like the recent French one, we shouldn’t be surprised to see politicians and their staffers logging-in to SL. In fact, we should embrace the democratization of SL and related experiments in political engagement that reach out to a marginalized, but otherwise discriminating and informed audience. After...