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Musical genres, like city streets, need names to make things navigable. Artists rage against categorization, but it's a useful tool to define the boundaries of a given phenomenon. Neo-soul is the best name to call the latest emerging genre. Simply defined, neo-soul describes artists--like song-stylist Erykah Badu--who combine a palpable respect for and understanding of the classic soul of the '60s and '70s with a healthy appetite for '90s sonic experimentation and boundary crossing. Neo-soul artists tend to create music that's a good deal more real, a good deal more edgy than...
...athletes, and the hard-core fans, have been resistant to embrace the X-Games and all their cheesy mainstream marketing; these guys prefer their own cheesy marketing. The games have been rechristened from the original Extreme Games, because extreme has come to signify "desperate marketing tool." Now they gently allude to Generation X, which also means "desperate marketing tool." And even though the skateboard faithful loathe the mainstream hype, they have grudgingly accepted the event. It is, after all, the only venue where skateboarders, banned from their towns' streets, can watch their heroes sign autographs on ABC's Wide World...
Ironically, it was Rubin's remarks before Congress two weeks ago that seem to have triggered the latest spiral. Appearing before the Senate Finance Committee, he was asked why the U.S. was doing nothing to support the yen. "Intervention is a temporary tool," he replied. "The whole answer lies in Japan doing what it needs to do." As he continued to speak, an aide passed him a note saying the yen had suddenly begun to drop. Apparently assuming that Washington would remain on the sidelines, dealers had sold billions of yen, sending the currency to an eight-year...
...about globalization all we want, it will take some well-spent cultural scrutiny on both sides of the ocean to understand our partners in capitalism. While Japan has already assumed many cosmetic changes to bring America into the marketplace--even the karaoke we borrowed from the Japanese is a tool for would-be Michael Jacksons and Madonnas here--we must be wary not to assume that cultural comprehension has been attained. Fundamentally, it will require more than the Golden Arches to bridge the Pacific cultural divide...
...platform of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party calls for "the establishment of a sovereign Taiwan Republic." But the straits crisis of 1996 sobered the party's leaders, and they are busy revising their approach, now saying they would hold off indefinitely on independence and use it as a defensive tool. If China became too threatening, the D.P.P. says, it would call a referendum on independence, then appeal to the world to recognize the new state of Taiwan and support the political will of a free people...