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...start, everyone worships the athletes, aka the ones with the best bodies - that is, with the possible exception of the female weight lifters, and that scary New Zealand softball pitcher. Here at the games the athletes are an untouchable clique unto themselves, although when you actually manage to get close enough to talk to one of them, they turn out to be just as dull as they were in 11th grade...
When gangsta rap came under fire as a threat to America's moral values, a few people stood up and defended hip-hop artists as troubadours of the ghetto, even if artists that truly deserved that tag were few and far between. Nasir Jones (aka Nas, aka Nasty Nas, aka Nas Escobar, aka Nastradamus) was one such rapper. Nastradamus, his newest album, cements his reputation as urban troubadour or, as "Come Get Me" announces, "America's foremost young poet." From "The Prediction" to "The Outcome"--prophetic and apocalyptic spoken-word joints from poet Jessica Care Moore--Nas' album...
...National Council of La Raza. And the networks' few efforts at Hispanic- or Asian-themed programs (see, or better yet don't, the misused Margaret Cho in All-American Girl) have been feeble and short-lived, feeding the belief that they're untenable. Norman Lear produced ABC's AKA Pablo in 1984, but says "the interest simply hasn't been there" for a Latino program since. Even the networks' critics largely blame not blind Klansmanship but the belief that white viewers are key to the ratings and ad bucks that big broadcasters seek. "They think about the market," says Screen...
...spiritual journey duringhigh school. While as late as ninth grade he canremember "asking if he could help someone" whobelieved in God, in 11th grade, he began dating a"deeply spiritual" girl who he says slowly taughthim to value the "good over the right." In hisefforts to understand her (aka do the rightthing), Goff says, he tended to order herreactions into binary categories, which he nowsees as a very 'male' strategy, which, over thetwo years they dated, slowly denied her her ownvoice (not realizing the good). After theirbreak-up and during their subsequentreconciliation, Goff says he realized thatreligion could bring unconditional...
...Neither, to be honest, had we. These two men are better known as Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers. respected Cambridge auto mechanics and MIT graduates. They are also co-hosts of Car Talk, a syndicated radio program broadcast from the offices of Dewey, Cheetham & Howe in Harvard Square (aka Car Talk Plaza...