Word: wanderings
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...into homogenized goop. But Aterciopelados insisted on recording its latest CD in its hometown of Bogota. And Max de Castro projects blown-up images of old Brazilian LPs at some of his concerts to remind audiences of his country's heritage. Many new global artists have the curiosity to wander the earth with their music and the integrity to stay connected to their homelands. This is the help Marley asked for. These are freedom songs...
...Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998, or the attack on the Cole in Aden harbor this year, Americans have understood that they could be a target. The degree of security in government offices and at airports is of a degree unimaginable only 20 years ago, when you could wander around federal government buildings almost at will. But no amount of understanding could suffice to prepare Americans for the horror they have had to cope with today...
...died of thirst in a communist jail. I wondered whether I, in my freedom, was about to suffer a similar fate. Perhaps I was being punished for my lack of filial duty. I had contravened the ancient Chinese custom that dictates: "When your parents are still alive, don't wander far from home...
...been criticized, is gathered around him at other low tables. For a putative reformist, he has surrounded himself with numerous politicians associated with corruption-tainted governments from the past. Suwit Khunkitti, Shucheep Harnsawad and Sonthaya Khunpleum are seated nearby, keeping a wary eye on Thaksin as if he might wander away, leaving them once again out of power...
...young Americans are about to be drafted to fight in an unpopular war; no young Europeans have their rights and pleasures routinely stifled by a jackbooted state. Indeed, never before have those who live in Europe and North America been so prosperous, so safe, so free to wander the world, so richly endowed with the wonderful toys of high technology. Why, beyond the boredom that comfort always brings, have a few thousand self-styled anarchists decided to don face masks and body armor? Why fight...