Mar 11 2003

I listen to Radio Marti quite a bit, taking in foreign music and distant news, but I don't understand any spanish.

Well, there's one word -- a word that appears often in the lyrics of the songs: corazon. Out of the unintelligble jumble, the static, and the tune, pops this word, it's use applying more to love than anatomy. If I only knew one word of english, I wonder how our radio would sound...

I listen to Radio Sawa occasionally, a pop station broadcast by the U.S. in the Middle East so we can deliver American-friendly news at the top of each hour. The Arabic word that leaps out most is "habibi," which means "my beloved."

--Rogers Cadenhead, 3/11/2003 14:32:19