Stewart Copeland, right, with
his Police bandmates, earlier
in their careers.
Has "reunion" become a dirty word in rock music? Stewart Copeland of the Police thinks not.
Weary critics might grouse about old rockers hogging the limelight, cashing out and repeating themselves for lack of fresh ideas. Nevertheless, Copeland's once-pioneering reggae-rock trio is on the road once more after last year's great reawakening. It's part two of a reunion run that the Police had successfully avoided for 23 years, and it's the latest in rock's sometimes exhausting string of comebacks, album tours and prolonged farewells.
In an April interview, Copeland defended doing it again. And his Exhibit A was another band's work.
See The Police live, with Elvis Costello and the Imposters, July 14 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre.
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Ghana's Blakk Rasta has recorded
an Obama-themed song.>By Drew Hinshaw
PopMatters.com (MCT)
The puppy dogs of America have aged seven or eight years since the exhaustingly long Democratic primary opened for business, and in that time a niche art form has blossomed in the black diaspora: the Barack Obama Praise Song.
The rhythms and melodies range from Jamaican reggae to Kenyan benga, but that pulse of a people's collective hopes racing into the ether is unmistakably familiar: "Yes, We Can" sounds the same in Luo as it does in English. By the time Puerto Rico puts a wrap to this extended season of American political theater with its June 3 primary, some globetrotting multi-cultural record label _ say, Putumayo or Mango — should have the goods for a compilation titled "Obama-mania: World Music Edition."
Listen to Ghana's Blakk Rasta's performance of "Barack Obama," free from truepanther.com.
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President George W. Bush, right,
and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert visit the Masada fortress.
(Ariel Jerozolimski/Flash 90/MCT)
JERUSALEM — President Bush took the occasion of Israel's 60th anniversary on Thursday to denounce calls for the United States to talk to Iran and other radical forces in the region as "appeasement" and a "foolish delusion."
In a speech to Israel's parliament, Bush compared the calls — by some leading Democrats — for talks with Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas to those who sought to negotiate with Adolf Hitler.
"We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history," Bush said in his 20-minute speech.
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MENU:
Fajita Chicken and Veggie Pizza, Milk & Fresh Fruit
ACTIVITY:
Unity Faire is today during lunch at the Big Green! Come enjoy food from different cultures. Tickets to purchase food will be sold at the fair.
Tonight - double feature! Come see the 19th annual One-Acts at 6 pm and stick around to see the Logan Alumni Improv show afterwards at 7:30. Tickets for both events are $3 in advance, $5 at the door.
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By David Collins, Courier Opinion Editor
The basis of all societies is a standard of what is right and wrong. For a society to become stable and also to grow, it must have law, or a standard by which all within that society judge life. The nature of our law is derived from the Romans, who took most of their early ideas from the Greeks. The Greeks greatly believed that the growth of society depended on the wisdom of the people and the ever-growing knowledge that grew from this belief founded a basis for one of the greatest empires the world has ever known.
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From wikipedia:
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (May 15, 1857 – May 21, 1911), astronomer, was born in Dundee, Scotland, to Robert Stevens and Mary Walker Stevens. She attended public schools in Dundee, and at the age of 14, she became a pupil-teacher. She married James Orr Fleming, and they moved to the U.S. and settled in Boston, Massachusetts, when she was 21. While she was pregnant with her son, Edward, her husband abandoned her, and she had to find work to support herself and Edward.
She worked as a maid in the home of Professor Edward Charles Pickering. Pickering became frustrated with his male assistants at the Harvard College Observatory and famously declared his maid could do a better job.
Learn more about Williamina Fleming and her work, and see pictures of her working, free from the Open Collections Program at the Harvard University Library.
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