So explained Dhani, the pony-tailed, baby-faced founder of one of Indonesia's most popular rock 'n' roll bands, Dewa, on a recent afternoon here.

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This was usually my only opportunity to change the radio channel from my father's preferred easy listening station to WOKY, a popular Milwaukee rock-n-roll station.

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But if the military tide were to turn against the SPLA-N there would be fierce popular pressure on the southern government to help it wholeheartedly.

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Bacharach's lush pop songs from the 1960s and '70s, with their complex harmonies and rhythms, were very different from the three-chord rock 'n' roll tunes that were popular at the time.

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Led by Bart de Wever, a charismatic bruiser, the N-VA's appeal stems precisely from popular exasperation with the messy, unsatisfying compromises of the older political groups.

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"Afghanistan will feel the change that Pakistan now has a strong and popular government, " Sartaj Aziz, a member of the PML (N)'s powerful central executive committee and a former foreign minister during Mr Sharif's second term, told the BBC.

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That's a hangover from the early days, when Canfield and Smith didn't have the clout or the bucks to jump onto the candy racks at Wal-Mart or CVS. So they approached stores like Urban Outfitters, Linens 'n Things, Eastern Mountain Sports and Newbury Comics, a popular Boston-area record store.

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Mr. Shah said that JUI-F was particularly strong in the south of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and predicted it would make gains along with Pakistan Muslim League-N, the conservative party of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, which is popular in the non-Pashtun parts of the province.

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