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Continuing streak of penitent '90s hip-hop stars, jailed DMX hopes to become pastor after release...
...parents were from Jamaica, but Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G., a.k.a. Biggie Smalls, was straight outta Brooklyn. In the mid-'90s, when the hottest, hardest rap came from California, Biggie restored some bicoastal equilibrium with his quadruple-platinum CD Ready to Die. After that, the headlines were mostly police-blotter stuff. In 1996 his ex-friend, then rival Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas. The following year, when Biggie made an incursion onto L.A. turf to promote his new album, he was shot and killed. (Neither murder was officially solved.) In 2003 Shakur got a zazzy...
...always just, "Hey, are you the guy who did it last time?" Because we have a new group of people every four years and 90% of them have never put on a parade before, much less an Inaugural parade. I guess it was in the '80s or '90s that I'd wait until about six weeks before the Inaugural parade was to take place before I'd contact a mover, a shaker or a decision maker to say, "Hey, I'm here if you need me." And anytime I make myself known, it's like, "God, can you get over...
Those We Lost in 2008 You describe the late Charlton Heston as a "figure of epic contradictions," citing his marching with Martin Luther King Jr. in the '60s and his leading the National Rifle Association in the '90s [Dec. 29]. I fail to see any contradiction. The man consistently fought in important and not entirely risk-free ways for the rights and dignity of individuals. John Loosemore, HANCOCK, MICH...
...faculty member of the University of Chicago in the early 90s, poet Elizabeth Alexander worked closely with President-elect Barack Obama, whom she regarded as unusually brilliant...