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...This band] began to write its own rules, creating rock mini-suites...and writing lyrics that captured the numbing ambivalence that many people feel about living in a microprocessed...
Nevertheless, over the last 50 years, one of the major factors that has united the Arab world is their bloody reluctance or refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the Jewish state. This has tragically continued in the current mini-war, in spite of the incredible efforts by Israel and some of its neighbors toward peace over the past number of years. Given the fact that the Arab League joined together in an emergency meeting to blame Israel for the fighting, offer funds to support the Palestinians and call for the end of all steps toward normalization of relations with Israel...
...stranger to synergy. Behind my desk in TIME.com's cluttered bullpen-style newsroom sits CNN's mini-TV studio (a desk and a remote camera) for all manner of cross-promotional chores. Spots on CNN, CNNfn and even CNNi for TIME, Fortune and Money correspondents. Sometimes a pretty lady comes in to read something in Spanish. Once, James Earl Jones came in to talk about the new "Star Wars," and topped it off by recording an endless series of "This is..." sound bites for the CNN-Time, CNN-Fortune and CNN-Entertainment Weekly shows they run when the news...
There's the larger question about whether this form of mini-media conglomerate can survive. The artist-as-mogul trend (Puff Daddy and Madonna, for example) has had a bumpy ride. Whether or not Wu-Tang winds up challenging the media giants, and whether or not the world-domination thing pans out, the band has built something it may be able to live with. "Sometimes I wake up and say, 'Man, we came from nothing and look at what we've got,'" says Diggs. "I just wish America one day can take a look and realize the prodigal children...
Looking as vigorous as he plays, Wild celebrated his birthday last week with a Carnegie Hall recital, consisting primarily of 13 works by Brahms, Liszt and Chopin, among them Brahms' Rhapsody No. 2, Liszt's Ballade No. 2 and Chopin's Ballade No. 1. Wild created ravishing mini-dramas of these demanding, emotionally expansive scores. He has just released a new CD, 20th & 21st Century Piano Sonatas (Ivory Classics...