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...been No. 1 on the Billboard World Music chart for the past nine weeks, is a rollicking time machine, at once archaic and up-to-the-second, primal and technologically smart. In songs like Udu Chant, Temple Caves and Dance of the Hunter's Fire, the players coax a torrent of tattoos and flowing rhythms from a battery of drums, synthesizers, Chinese cymbals, rattles and even Mexican donkey jaws...
...state funds that benefit religious institutions or activities. Justice Hugo Black, a Baptist, wrote that neither federal nor state governments "can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions or prefer one religion over another." That ruling marked a sharp separationist turn in court thinking. It unleashed a torrent of litigation that continues to flood courtrooms 44 years later. And in a succession of cases, the court drew the line ever more strictly...
...Washington seems to have a clue how to get out of it. There was a flash of good news last week, when the government reported that the gross national product grew at a 2.4% annual rate in the third quarter. But it was quickly doused by a torrent of dismal reports showing last summer's rebound to be short-lived. Sales of new homes plunged 12.9% in September despite the lowest mortgage rates in 14 years. Consumer- confidence sagged in October to levels not seen since the height of the Persian Gulf war, and the unemployment rate for the month...
Expecting a torrent of voters to show up for yesterday's city elections, officials guarding the ballot box in the basement of the Harvard University Police Headquarters on Garden St. got not much more than a trickle...
Harris says that her openness about her habit has unleashed a torrent of confessions from others who admit to finding themselves in circumstances similar...