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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mostly successful CD Home, Spearhead too takes on a variety of social concerns, from poverty to black nationalism. The songs draw on hip-hop, jazz and soul. One song, Positive, is about getting tested for the aids virus; another, Caught Without an Umbrella, describes the allure of suicide. A few of the tunes on Home are pedestrian, but all are jaywalkers -- flouting the rules and going where they please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Cats and Rappers | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...Passim has been behind in rent to Harvard Real Estate for about a year. They owe $100,000 in back rent," said Stephen Baird, executive director of the Folk Arts Network, an umbrella group for non-profit arts groups in Massachusetts. "There are other debts...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Folk Music Cafe Sings Money Blues | 11/8/1994 | See Source »

...powerful new alliance of giant communications companies is taking shape just in time to bid for new slices of the airwaves under Sprint?s national brand umbrella. The nation?s No. 3 long-distance phone company announced today it would team with three leading cable TV operators -- TCI, Comcast, and Cox -- to compete with Baby Bells and establish a national wireless communication network. Dealmaking in the wireless business has accelerated in the past month. Also in just ahead of the FCC's Friday deadline: Bell Atlantic-Nynex and U S West-AirTouch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNDER THE WIRE | 10/25/1994 | See Source »

Leevonn Cloud, campaign manager for the umbrella charity organization Community Works, will speak at the lunch next week...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Charity Fundraiser to Begin | 10/22/1994 | See Source »

...current crisis in Algieria began in early 1992 when the secular political-military regime, anticipating a victory by the Islamic Salvation Front in the country's first freely-held elections, canceled the vote. The Front is an umbrella organization of Islamists, or Islamic fundamentalists, who believe that normative religious law should have a greater say in determining the political culture of Algeria...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoff, | Title: Algiers On Battle St. | 10/7/1994 | See Source »

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