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...several new restaurants and kebab stands. Here and there, apartment buildings have received a fresh coat of paint. Even the concrete walls that crisscross much of Baghdad, erected by the U.S. military to protect neighborhoods from sectarian militias, have been prettified. The government has paid artists to paint huge, brightly colored murals on the walls, so a drive now takes you past bucolic scenes of farmers planting rice, fishermen in the marshes, peasants dancing in verdant valleys. The walls give Baghdad a somewhat disjointed feel, making it less a city than a series of contiguous fortresses...
...home," says the former Piedmont Airlines pilot. "We were bringing people home in the cockpit and in the back of the cabin." After 23 years of flying mainline American carriers, Murray, 54, says he became "tired of watching senior management march through the airline and leave with huge golden parachutes...
BARACK OBAMA Run up huge margins in Philadelphia and with African-American voters statewide; achieve parity in Philadelphia suburbs; win big with college kids...
...There are very few occasions when you get to see a company this big so close,” Larissa D. Koch ’08, a dancer and choreographer herself, said after the event. “Most of the other venues they perform in are really huge, and this is a sort of intimacy that you wouldn’t normally get with such a large company.”Though on some level the dance talks are meant as an introduction to an audience unfamiliwar with dance, much of the audience was comprised of seasoned balletomanes...
...prophets of black anger and frustration, the definers of racial identity, and the proponents for social and political change.Reeves provides a systematic chronicle that takes the reader from hip-hop’s origins its current manifestations. He charts how DJs’ isolation of the breakbeat at huge New York block parties in the late 1970s evolved into the musical form that burst into popular consciousness with the Sugarhill Gang and Run-D.M.C. He analyzes how the violence and rage of NWA’s “Straight Outta Compton” during the crack epidemic changed...