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Boike began the evening's festivities by singing the national anthem and finished off the night holding onto the ball as the clock...
...other rappers in the legal spotlight, the subject of hip-hop and violence is back on the nation's editorial pages. Puff Daddy, Eminem and DMX aren't great artists, but they have all, at some point, recorded material that I've enjoyed, including DMX's "Ruff Ryders Anthem," Eminem?s "Guilty Conscience," and Puff Daddy's production work with Mary J. Blige. They have also all recorded lyrics that I've abhorred - some critics may give Eminem credit for his "edgy" wordplay, but in my book attacking gays and women is pretty cowardly stuff. Then again, my book didn...
...They're coming to America." The theme was inclusion: John Ashcroft was there, fresh from a bitter confirmation hearing in which opponents cast him as a racist character assassin; he greeted Colin Powell, who had sailed through his own hearing, and as singer Kim Weston began the black national anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, the men were joined by Katherine Harris, late of Tallahassee, Fla. "Stony the road we trod,/Bitter the chastening rod,/Felt in the days when hope unborn had died," goes the anthem. "Yet with a steady beat,/Have not our weary feet,/Come...
Remember Superbowl XXIX, when the 49ers shellacked the Chargers, 49-26? How about the Cowboys' 52-17 drubbing of the Bills in 1993? Awesome games! Blowouts, sure. They were over right after the national anthem. But there sure were lots of touchdowns, and everyone loves touchdowns...
...behemoth the size of Western Europe, stretching from Sudan in Africa's northeast to Angola and Zambia in its southwest. It has a flag (although its bland blue banner spangled with an assortment of gold stars looks more like the neutral emblem of some forgotten international organization). And an anthem, too. Its government issues passports and postage stamps and national budgets, and maintains a standing army. But for most of its people, the government in Kinshasa has been an authority as distant as any colonial power. As a state in the modern sense, Congo may have long ago ceased...