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...Summers in Okinawa are so hot that many people stay indoors during the day to emerge only after the sun has set. Which means a night out can begin at midnight and last till sunrise. For black U.S. servicemen and the girls who chase them, there's a routine to the club scene: if it's Thursday night, it's Else, a dim, smoky disco just outside the gates of Kadena Air Force Base; on Friday nights it's the Globe & Anchor, a vast R. and R. complex on Camp Foster with arcade games and pool tables around a pulsing...
...across the street, in front of a billboard for the movie Pearl Harbor, is another group of Okinawans from Ryukyu University. The students wave banners and shout hoarsely into bullhorns: "We oppose American bases on Okinawa! We oppose President Bush! We oppose violence to women! We will not rest till the bases...
...Maybe, just maybe, if I work from sun up till sundown, I can fill one of Joe Moakley’s shoes,” says Lynch, who recalls Moakley reminding politicians to remember “the people upstairs, downstairs and across the back fence...
...alone. On Sept. 10, MTV VJ and former BET host Ananda Lewis wants to bring back Phil Donahue-style social issues on her own syndicated talk show. (Both shows will air in most U.S. markets.) But Iyanla (ee-yon-la) and Ananda (an-on-da; wait till David Letterman gets them in the same room) face the common belief that only one mononym can get away with nonsensationalistic talk...
...After four verses of 12-bar blues, the song rollicks into some of Charles? swingin? lounge piano, then returns to the vocal, in a squealing release -"Say, have you heard, baby/ Ray Charles is in town/ Let?s mess around till the midnight hour/ See what he?s puttin? down" -that prefigures no fewer than three Atlantic songs: Charles? own "Let the Good Times Roll" and "Mess Around" and Wilson Pickett?s "In the Midnight Hour." The song ends with generic barks ("Come on! Come on, child!") that are pretty much grunts with consonants. A listener needs no English...