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...identified with hip-hop growing up. There was this incredibly pure anger, sort of free-floating rage towards everything and everyone. And growing up in a group home for emotionally disturbed adolescents, my God, we just inhabited that space. We were able to take the hip-hop tropes - hating authority, and hating the police - and use it for our own lives. It felt so empowering that you could come from nothing and become a god. Like all fantasies, it was an illusion. If you look at Death Row Records, everybody on that label was just viciously exploited...
...findings bear out, they may herald a potential new treatment for an age-old condition. As psychiatric symptoms go, hair-pulling is among the earliest recorded. According to Dr. Jon Grant, a trichotillomania expert at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine and the lead author of the new paper, Hippocrates himself said that in order to test whether patients were faking their illness, doctors must ask whether they are pulling out their hair. The behavior is so commonly associated with distress that the stock phrase to describe a stressful situation is that it causes you to tear your hair...
...distraction from Egypt's domestic woes. "The Islamists in Egypt have already [begun] using this as a card to mobilize for the veil - not for the right of women to wear whatever they want, but in defense of the veil," Hossam el-Hamalawy, an Egyptian journalist and author of the popular blog Arabawy.org, tells TIME...
...unimpressed - "the woman is inarticulate, undereducated ... She just begs for adjectives like flaky and wacky ... (she) has no credentials for any job" - by • self-pitying Facebook page of • Shannyn Moore says "Bring it on!" to • "whining" about unfavorable media coverage used to "bother" • wondering by author of this index if presenting enough unflattering material about, like this and this and this and this, and this, will prompt the threat of a lawsuit...
Still, Sanford Kreisberg, an independent admissions consultant and author of the "HBS Guru" blog, said that he believes the increase signals an intent to add an 11th section soon...