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...Above” (featuring R. Kelly), “Bout That,” and finally “Judgment Day,” which features a sample of Ozzy Osbourne’s “War Pigs” in the background. The album features a wide array of artists—some not really heard from since before Sigel’s last stint in jail, when his crew dubbed “State Property” dispersed. Yet all the guest spots in the world couldn’t help the sheer disorganization and generally uninspired...
...political theory and political morality,” but that civic engagement should become part of campus culture. According to PBHA President Angelico N.A. Razon ’08, however, interest in public service organizations is increasing. Razon said that he thinks that all people, regardless of background or education level, should help their communities. “I really do think that everyone has an obligation. I don’t think it’s just students,” Razon said. “I don’t think it’s the university?...
...from intense flashbacks of living in a teepee in the middle of the New Mexican desert with my bizarre family every summer of my childhood. But that particular sordid fact from my past, as well as pretty much everything else about me, I firmly intended to shove into the background so that my new persona as a normal, Gore-Tex-loving co-ed could take center stage. All it was going to take, I decided, was a little imagination and a lot of grit...
...preconceived notions. You know, what else does he have going on?” As his younger sister Jesse Brown recalls, “When he was eight or nine, he used to say he knew everyone on the Upper East Side.” Coming from this prestigious background, immersed in everything uptown and Manhattan, one of the hardest tasks for Brown was to come to school and actually make something of himself. As a rising sophomore, Brown spent his summer working on the set of “The Departed,” and was such...
...certain degree Obama's own ethnic background helps him: he can speak convincingly to black voters, and his half sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, who is half white and half Indonesian, has campaigned for him amongst Asian Americans. His rock star status has helped recruit high school and college kids, though it's anyone's guess if they will actually turn out. Harrington's daughter, Caitlin, a freshman at the University of Iowa, organized 47 of her classmates to caucus at home - signing them up through "Rock the Caucus" on Facebook - and is working to find them all home precincts...