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Make no mistake, however. While I’m tired of the detrimental coverage that hip-hop has received, the genre is still a great, great love of mine. Common’s own love affair with hip-hop might be in the past, but for me, it’s still going strong. I’m not in agreement with Nas—hip-hop is alive and well, and I’m loving every lyric...
...Tigers again had no answer for the elusive point man, who was able to repeatedly shake his defender at the top of the key and finish strong at the hoop. The Crimson would never trail for the remainder of the game, although Princeton did manage to keep the affair close until late. After Goffredo hit a driving layup to put Harvard up 36-29 with 5:45 to play, Tigers forward Justin Conway scored four straight points to pull Princeton within three and bring back memories of last season’s 60-59 Tigers win at Lavietes Pavilion, when...
...wasn't supposed to be this way. For many Americans, one of the key lessons of Sept. 11 was that the U.S.-Saudi alliance had become an extremely dangerous affair. The 9/11 commission called Riyadh "a problematic ally." Congress tried to impose sanctions, and President George W. Bush demanded that the monarchy embrace political reform. "Saudi Arabia used to have a lot of apologists in this country," declared Eliot Cohen, a member of Bush's Defense Policy Board, in 2002. "Now there are very...
...like, Oh, that's disgusting!") As for James Bond, the way Durkin describes Daniel Craig's performance in Casino Royale ("this guy is just hard-arse, and then he actually falls in love and you believe it"), he could be the male equivalent of her Alcina, whose affair with the knight Ruggiero brings her crashing to earth. Skype enables the daily video chats she has with her new husband, rising American tenor Matt Morgan, at their home in Manhattan, where he is performing Frederick in Pirates of Penzance for the New York City Opera. That he won't be seeing...
...more sober tone than many past offerings, most strongly resembling 2003’s “World Without Tears.” The album’s generally downbeat vibe is reportedly inspired by both her mother’s death and the turbulent end of a love affair, and both get examined in myriad ways. In the song “Mama You Sweet,” she introduces the grief caused by the loss of her mother: “And the pain in my soul / The pain hits a wall / Doesn’t know which...