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...pushing his good-neighbor policy beyond the gates of the Country Club. He has provided scholarships to Baton Rouge students (and $25,000 to the local Boy Scouts), given equipment to schools and handed out Thanksgiving turkeys and winter coats. He has also given talks on the importance of staying in school and avoiding drugs and violence...
Suburban living doesn't get much better than the Country Club of Louisiana, a steel-gated, pool-dappled subdivision on the outskirts of Baton Rouge. Houses cost from $300,000 to $3 million. There is a lovely golf and tennis club with a spacious veranda meant to re-create the look of a Louisiana plantation. But denizens were somewhat unnerved last year to learn that five of the leading gangsta rappers in the world had moved in: Master P, C-Murder, Silkk the Shocker, Mystikal and Snoop Dogg...
...rappers' multiplatinum recordings celebrate gunfights, misogyny and the crack trade. And their transfer to Baton Rouge, as noted in the latest issue of the New Republic, is a corporate decision by Master P, 29, ne Percy Miller. The Louisiana native moved his No Limit Records from locations in Los Angeles and New Orleans last year and is building a large recording studio. No Limit is the nation's top-grossing rap label, with more than $200 million in revenues, and Master P runs a multifaceted empire that dabbles in everything from toys to film to travel. The $56.5 million...
...NATO sources, says that the KLA is continuing to stockpile weapons and reports that the organization is taxing the population as well as confiscating property, under threat of violence, from both Serbs and ethnic Albanians. Commenting on the KLA?s monopolization of power, widely respected Kosovar Albanian newspaper editor Baton Haxhiu told the Times, "Each day it is becoming more dangerous to think and speak independently." Part of the problem is that the United Nations has been able to deploy only 156 of the 3,000 policemen promised by member states. President Clinton joins leaders of NATO countries and Balkan...
...EXTRA BONUS] Instructor holds world record for most turns under a tossed baton...