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By Rome Jorge, Lifestyle Editor
America today—post-colonial, post-9/11,
post-President Bush—is much unloved. Global bully and arms
peddler; guarantor of multinational corporate pollution, wasteful
consumerist lifestyles and peace treaties to end all peace;
financier of its own future enemies and the rest of the world’s
nascent scourges; pathological and hypocritical meddler; home of the
loud and the boorish—we have come to know this country by its
actions. But there are reasons why American culture was once
esteemed: Miles Davis, Martin Luther King Jr., Nina Simone, Martha
Graham and, of course, Jack Kerouac.
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