Word: admitedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 30s, Ice-T is a decade older than many of his rap compatriots, and that shows in his work. He is perhaps the only rapper who can admit that he was wrong. He has eliminated antigay messages from his raps. "I used to make fun of gay people, call them fags," he says. "But my homeys weren't down with that, so now I lay off." He has also left the most extreme, racist gangster rap to the likes of Ice Cube. Instead, he now focuses his energy on what he calls "intelligent hoodlum" material. Quincy Jones says...
Gang members admit that they used the riots for their own ends but refuse to take responsibility for them. "Gangs get blamed for everything that happens," says Randy ("Bird") Strickland, 21, a leader of a South Central L.A. gang not participating in the truces. "Gangs are bad, true enough. But if everybody stopped gang-banging right now, there'd still be crime." Strickland says gang members, like many other South Central residents, were outraged over the acquittal of the four L.A.P.D. officers tried for the videotaped beating of Rodney King. "They just kicked us right in the face with...
...enjoys comparisons with Harry Truman and Franklin Roosevelt. He sees himself as a can-do guy in a can't-do era -- as a feisty straight-talker like Truman, as a bold experimenter like F.D.R., whose plan for rescuing capitalism ("Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it and try another; but above all try something") is echoed in Perot's call for "action, action, action." Perot may never be ranked with Truman and Roosevelt -- and of course he would have to win first -- but he already personifies an enduring strain in American life, a pervasive antipathy...
...didn't think he would straighten up, even though I loved him." Both mother and son remember one traumatic confrontation when a 14-year-old Clinton broke in the door to threaten his father. Both, until their memories were recently jogged, thought this ended the physical threats. Now they admit that could not have been the case. Why does Clinton remember the break-in episode and not later ones, which he described in his deposition? "That ((break-in)) was a dramatic thing. It made me know I could do it if I had to. But it made me more conflict...
...long list of Administration officials has already appeared before the Gonzalez committee to admit that the effort to woo Iraq was a flop. "I have said 15 times today that it didn't work," Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger acknowledged wearily at the end of one session. But Administration spokesmen have also denied they were subject to undue pressure to favor Iraq. The combative Gonzalez has moved to counter their claims by reading into the Congressional Record a cloak of secret documents, mostly concerning White House efforts to secure the loan guarantees, which have become the subject of lengthy...