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...double blow." But most posts on this and other forums have been positive, one describing it as "History in the making, Jay-Z will bring a fresh flavour." Noel Gallagher of the Manchester rock-band Oasis, always good for a comment, stirred things further when he opined to BBC News, "If it ain't broke don't fix it...I'm sorry, but Jay-Z? No chance. Glastonbury has a tradition of guitar music. I'm not having hip-hop at Glastonbury. It's wrong." Gallagher obviously missed previous years' sets from De La Soul, Cypress Hill and the Roots...
...Bonaroo festival-goers when his 2:45 a.m. performance was delayed to 4:25 am. Kanye ragged against the criticism, writing on his blog, "This is the maddest I ever will be." Jay-Z responded in his spat in more measured terms, describing the Glastonbury controversy as "ridiculous" on BBC Radio 1's Rap Show. "It's 2008, what is that about? That's such old-school thinking," he said...
...International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Johnson-Sirleaf lost her first presidential bid in 1997 but went on to defeat former soccer player George Weah in the 2005 elections, pledging to bring “motherly sensitivity and emotion to the presidency,” according to the BBC. As president, Johnson-Sirleaf confronts the difficult task of repairing a country ravaged by war. “She faces what other people would see as insurmountable challenges in restoring a country torn apart by 14 years of the most brutal civil war,” said Hunt, who worked...
...enormous responsibility that had come to me—I didn’t feel prepared for it,” the Aga Khan told the BBC that year. “It was a very, very heavy burden to take over...
Reed was the victim of mistaken identity. The killer's real target had been her sister, Alison Ponting, a producer at the BBC World Service. Alison was married to a chubby Armenian charmer, Gacic Ter-Oganisyan, whom she had met while studying Russian at university. But the marriage triggered a chain of improbable events which eight years later unleashed the whirlwind of death, imperialism, civil war, oil, gangsterism and nationalist struggle that is otherwise known as the North Caucasus upon sleepy Woking...