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David Byrne is rock's most protean misfit. During the 1980s, when he was the lead singer for Talking Heads, his jittery, paranoid persona was the ideal conduit for songs about psycho killers, information overload and the itchy $ neuroses of ordinary life. Then, on albums such as Remain in Light and Speaking in Tongues, Byrne added African polyrhythms to the Talking Heads' new-wave mix, creating a pancultural groove...
DeTik's greatest scoop, however, came while the paper was acting as a conduit for political signals. Last October, Suharto installed Information Minister Harmoko, who has no military credentials, as chief of the ruling Golkar Party -- a post that had previously been reserved for generals. The weekly published an interview with Army Major-General Sembiring Meliala, a former member of Parliament, who warned that the military would not tolerate being pushed away from the centers of power -- raising the specter of a clash between the President and the military...
...their 1950s levels. But even the deficit can be a boon if you're in the filly-raising class. The interest payments, which take up about 15% of the federal budget, go to the owners of Treasury bonds, meaning mainly the monied, and thus serve as one more conduit for the upward flow of wealth...
Free newspapers are both symbolic of and integral to the marketplace of ideas. As much as publications that must be purchased, free publications provide the public with a conduit for the exchange of information and opinions...
...such criminal activity as leaving the money for payoffs where it could not be traced, and one of his listeners remarking plaintively that Mitchell ought to know how to find somebody skilled in money laundering? The onetime chief law-enforcement officer of the country being mentioned as a conduit to recruit a successful crook! What comparison can be drawn between that and meetings concerning the Madison investigation between Treasury officers and White House aides that some commentators doubt can be considered improper...