Word: ushered
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...first lead role, for the movie In the Mix, R&B singer Usher plays a disk jockey who is hired to be the bodyguard for a Mafia princess...
...Prince, and other times sounding completely themselves, Spoon delivered all the fun their fad-clad audience could’ve hoped for. Doing as much as Modest Mouse and others to blur the lines between what is respectably indie and guiltily radio-friendly, Daniel and company are helping to usher in a new era that will hopefully win back the radio from cookie cutter hip hop. Maybe the artfully unkempt throng of Spoonophiles is on to something; no one can deny creativity this infectiously accessible forever. —Staff writer Henry M. Cowles can be reached at hmcowles@fas.harvard.edu...
...conference, while PBS, starting on Nov. 1 at 9 p.m. E.T., will begin running a six-hour series titled Rx for Survival--A Global Health Challenge. Finally, Alicia Keys will hold a concert in New York City benefiting Keep a Child Alive on Nov. 3 with such guests as Usher, Paul Simon and the Agape Children's Choir from Durban, South Africa. Tickets for the concert are still available at keepachildalive.org...
...happier aspects of globalization. The usual suspects are back in the spotlight: expanding free markets, the Internet, and the geopolitical fragmentation that followed the end of the Cold War. But in Na?m's version of the story, these changes?which in Friedman's telling are supposed to usher in a new, more enlightened global order?have become accessories to vice. In the 1990s, "Not only did the hold of governments on borders weaken," writes Na?m, "but [economic] reforms amplified the rewards awaiting those who were prepared to break the rules." And it turned out that everyone from gangsters to generals...