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...ones, musically speaking, worth a damn. As the survivor of a life-threatening car wreck (he recorded his vocals for the song Through the Wire with his jaw wired shut), West isn't really anticollege so much as drunk on live-life-now narcissism. He uses most of Dropout, winner of the Best Rap Album prize, to congratulate himself for doing the work it took to become a star and berating the chumps who buy into a system that he believes slowly deprives them of their dreams. There are moments when West is as funny (and as petulant) as Eminem...
NEVER MIND THAT the revolution Earle proclaimed didn't happen on Nov. 2. For lefties, this winner in the Best Contemporary Folk category still offers righteous anger at the direction the country is taking and the malevolence of the Establishment--just as a good folk album should. And any right-winger who can't laugh at the skulking, faux reggae Condi, Condi (surely one of the best love songs ever written about a former National Security Adviser) deserves to be locked in a room with Lee Greenwood for eternity...
LIKE MANY PEOPLE, I'm incapable of separating my dislike of world music from my dislike of the dinner parties at which it's played. But Egypt, winner in the Best Contemporary World Music category, is not the usual easy-listening exotica shrink-wrapped for the appetizer course. The melodies traipse from Cairo to Dakar; the lyrics are in Wolof; the liner notes offer translation and explain that the songs are about Sufi scholars, most of whom seem to practice a West African strain of Islamic Calvinism. Lest you fear learning something, N'Dour's voice sweeps and swells with...
...certainly raise the thinking in African heads of state about how best to leave office, which presumably helps limit the extent of corruption,” Rotberg said. “The prize permits them to be judged by opinion, both for honor and money.” The winner will receive a personal award of $5 million over a 10-year period. After that first decade, the winner will also receive $200,000 per year. Rotberg plans to issue the index next year, and the foundation may award the prize as early as the end of 2007. Depending...
...winner of Lebanon's political confrontation may be determined not by street protests in Beirut but by political jockeying in Washington. With Democrats pushing the Bush Administration to engage with Syria and Iran over the turmoil in Iraq, Hizballah may gain from the newfound stature of its patrons, according to Khashan. Still, that effect remains to be seen. "This is the Middle East," said Khashan. "You always have new uncontrolled variables that transform the situation at the last minute." One thing is for certain: now more than ever, Lebanon doesn't have time on its side...