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...Sullivan, regarding Biz Markie’s 1992 sample-heavy album “I Need a Haircut.” After the ruling, the shift in hip-hop towards synthesized beats was immediate,. Some artists managed to use parts of other musician’s work without running afoul with the law. They generally fall into three categories: anarchic, crazy, and rich. The recent wave of mash-up artists (which broke into the mainstream with DJ Danger Mouse’s Jay-Z/Beatles hybrid “The Grey Album”) have brought a new vitality...
...milkshake and then beating him to death with a metal figurine from the kitchen. Nancy Kissel claimed at her trial that her husband abused alcohol and cocaine and repeatedly forced anal sex on her, but she also admitted having an affair with a Vermont TV repairman. After Andrew ran afoul of the law, a Stamford, Conn., judge granted custody of the three kids to the Kissel brothers' sister Jane Clayton of Mercer Island, Wash...
...Angeles and Miami-- to arrest up to 50,000 fugitives a year, with the goal of booting out every last one. For this photo essay, TIME photographer Robert Nickelsberg traveled with an ICE team and border agents in San Diego as they sought and arrested immigrants suspected of running afoul...
...lite schools, Harvard in the late 19th and early 20th centuries transformed itself into a "research university" with a tenured faculty whose members were scholars first and teachers second. Research became the university's core purpose, and the faculty is the most powerful constituency, the one Summers ran afoul of. Senior scholars live inside what one might call coalitions of the brilliant--tight-knit, self-regulating global communities within each discipline, oriented around the dream of producing pathbreaking scholarly work...
Ultimately, though, Summers’ brusque manner, honed during his years in Washington, ran afoul of faculty members and administrators who found his style too blunt and autocratic...