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Hit It! Coldplay, Lorde, More On World Music Charts

Hit It! Coldplay, Lorde, More On World Music Charts

Below are some of the songs topping the charts around the world.

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The first clips of the long awaited Jimi Hendrix biopic All Is By My Side were released yesterday, showing Outkast's Andre 3000 playing the famous guitarist (see below). The film was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in Sep. 2013, and is set to be screened at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, on March 12.

All Is By My Side will focus on the time Hendrix spent in London in 1966 and 1967 where he launched his career thanks to his trademark guitar solos. Sadly, due to a refusal by Hendrix's estate, the biopic, which was scripted and directed by 12 Years A Slave screenwriter John Ridley, will not feature any original Hendrix songs. Instead, Andre 3000 performs songs by Muddy Waters, the Beatles and the Troggs, which Hendrix covered himself.


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Purebreds To "Rasse" Theory: A German Critique Of Dog Breeding

Just like ideas about racial theory, the notion of seeking purebred dogs is a relatively recent human invention. This animal eugenics project came from a fantasy of recreating a glorious past and has done irreparable harm to canines. A German

Photo of a four dogs, including two dalmatians, on leashes

No one flinches when we refer to dogs, horses or cows as purebreds, and if a friend’s new dog is a rescue, we see no problem in calling it a mongrel or crossbreed.

Wieland Freund

BERLIN — Some words always seem to find a way to sneak through. We have created a whole raft of embargoes and decrees about the term race: We prefer to say ethnicity, although that isn’t always much better. In Germany, we sometimes use the English word race rather than our mother tongue’s Rasse.

But Rasse crops up in places where English native speakers might not expect to find it. If, on a walk through the woods, the park or around town, a German meets a dog that doesn’t clearly fit into a neat category of Labrador, dachshund or Dalmatian, they forget all their misgivings about the term and may well ask the person holding the lead what race of dog it is.

Although we have turned our back on the shameful racial theories of the 19th and 20th centuries, the idea of an “encyclopedia of purebred dogs” or a dog handler who promises an overview of almost “all breeds” (in German, “all races”) has somehow remained inoffensive.

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