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...guitarist and co-founder of seminal punk band The Ramones, known for their angsty punk anthems like I Wanna Be Sedated and Blitzkrieg Bop; after a five-year battle with prostate cancer; in Los Angeles. Ramone, born John Cummings, helped craft The Ramones' thrashing, guitar-driven songs and unadorned pop melodies that became a model for future groups from the Sex Pistols to Nirvana. Despite his rebellious image, Ramone was a teetotaler and staunch Republican who belonged to the National Rifle Association...
...reposition its coffee as an upscale brand. While still supplying such supermarket stalwarts as Maxwell House and Folgers, the Colombian coffee industry is struggling to make itself relevant to younger generations of consumers who pooh-pooh any coffee that comes in a can--unless, of course, it's a pop-top Starbucks DoubleShot espresso...
...often pallid and dramatically confused. This is a disappointment not just for Lloyd Webber fans but for theaterland as a whole. These are tricky times for musical theater: the genre seems unable to produce successful new material, and depends too much on yesterday's tunes - shows based on old pop songs (by Abba, Queen, Rod Stewart), old movies (The Producers) and old faithfuls (Mary Poppins). If it turns out that Lloyd Webber - the man who had us singing about cats, trains, even Jesus - is unable to deliver a new hit, then who can? The industry was certainly banking on Woman...
...Islamization" of Iran's universities, quit his job. Ever since, he has been a leading thinker in pushing the case for a reformed Islam and a democratic Iran, and slowly but surely the movement has gathered momentum. Today Iran's progressive Islamic thinkers are nothing less than intellectual pop stars among students in Tehran, with heady sales of books on such topics as Islamic reform and democratization...
...Originally, I didn't want to be steeped in pop culture because it's fleeting. Then I figured, Madonna's here to stay. I'll let her be in my movie...