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...weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hearing the talking heads of Washington Week in Review address the, to them, unfathomable topic of why there is a "disconnect" between Washington and folk in the boonies...
...Globalization is a big and very wordy topic, but I think that he'll define it [more clearly]," said Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington, director of the academy...
Diller, the free-lance mogul and former chief of the Fox network has long been the topic of one of the TV industry's most popular guessing games: What will Barry do next? Since leaving Fox in 1992, Diller has dabbled in home shopping, proselytized for the digital revolution, failed to buy Paramount and, last February, succeeded in acquiring the majority of Universal's TV operations. Despite persistent rumors that he is in the market for a major network, such as CBS, Diller says he is more interested in fashioning his latest collection of TV properties--including the USA cable...
...album's central topic is love. Not the sappy sop of pop ditties, but a tough, confessional examination of relationships such as cultural critic Bell Hooks describes in her book Talking Back: Thinking Feminist/Thinking Black: "Love can be and is an important source of empowerment...to face the ways in which we dominate and are dominated... To change our actions, we need a mediating force to sustain us." Hill's songs try to be that mediating force. On Ex-Factor, she examines her own attraction to psychologically hurtful men. "Who I have to be/ To get some reciprocity?" she pleads...
...craving metaphorically. It's a creative time in hip-hop history, a pregnant time; there's a hunger for music that is out of the ordinary, that breaks boundaries. You think of a line from one of Hill's songs: "I treat this like my thesis/ Well-written topic/ Broken down into pieces." You slip Miseducation into your CD player. "Now some might mistake this for just a simple song...