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...feel, but they are more measured and the beats are as likely to be hammered out by hand as manufactured on a synthesizer. The languid Raanjhan is the definitive track here. Saathi, featuring the voice and sarangi of Khan, will please purists old enough to remember Ravi Shankar at Woodstock while fitting right alongside Buddha Bar in their teenage sons' collections...
...This has been a tough summer for the Bush Administration. While the President tries to relax on his five week Texas vacation, he's had to contend with deteriorating military and political conditions in Iraq, a Woodstock-like peace protest at the edge of his Crawford compound led by Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan, declining public opinion polls (that are echoed by "even worse" internal polling, says one Bush adviser), high oil prices and a recognition that things are not likely to turn around anytime soon. A senior Bush official attributes the president's collapsing poll numbers to "high...
...activity of some one million young Catholic pilgrims suddenly snaps to attention across a giant field where they've camped out through the damp and chilly night. The image of Benedict XVI in his popemobile appears on the giant video screens. He is somewhere here, in this gathering of Woodstock scope called World Youth Day, 15 miles outside of Cologne. Some cheer the sight on the screen, others clasp their hands in prayer. There are also plenty who seem to simply gravitate toward the physical presence of their Holy Father-some running in the direction of the faraway stage, others...
Geldof's social evangelism began early. As a teenager in Dublin, he helped start a chapter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and did community work because "I was never into sports." But his success at galvanizing a socially somnolent rock community surprised even the organizer. "It went beyond Woodstock," he says. "It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. Live Aid was activity as opposed to activism. We made giving exciting...
Although the organizers have miles to fill before they sleep, the project has already begun to evoke a spirit that is a curious amalgam of Woodstock, the Olympic torch relay and a March of Dimes walkathon. Says Kragen: "Kids see it as a party. Yuppies see it as a return to activism The elderly see it as neighbor to neighbor Democrats as a challenge to grass-roots organizing, Republicans as voluntarism.' And for all of them it is a diverting way of finding contentment on a Sunday afternoon. --By Richard Stengel. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Los Angeles