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...There are movies made everyday glorifying death, murder, and sex. Why does hip-hop have to be the first one to take the fall? -D. Lee in North Carolina It doesn't have to, but it does. People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. In the movies, the violence is so gratuitous. The sad truth is that people can't take it when it's reality. The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier...
...gambit made the court ruling against the AKP "almost inevitable," according to a senior Western diplomat. In an interview with TIME, retired army general Riza Kucukoglu said the military is now prepared to step back "because democracy is working," but he insisted that the ruling party was to blame for the crisis because it chose to nominate a "religious President." If the army fails to "deal with extremist ideology," he added, "Turkey could become a swamp that threatens not only the region but Europe and the U.S. as well...
There are movies made everyday glorifying death, murder, and sex. Why does hip-hop have to be the first one to take the fall? -D. Lee in North CarolinaIt doesn't have to, but it does. People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. In the movies, the violence is so gratuitous. The sad truth is that people can't take it when it's reality. The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look...
...today's climate, however, this counts for naught compared with the blame that Blair attracts for ensnaring Britain in the fiasco of Iraq. As the Bush Administration careered from a war in Afghanistan to one in Iraq, with Blair always in support, it became fashionable to say the Prime Minister had become the President's poodle...
...corruption, mismanagement, and endemic warfare, nearly three billion people—half of the world—live on less than $2 per day, and nearly a billion people cannot read or write. The temptation is to assign blame to the legacy of Western colonialism, but work such as that of Dartmouth economists James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote complicates the picture. Their research, examining 77 islands in the Atlantic, Pacific, and elsewhere, found that longer time spent as a colony translates into a better current standard-of-living and a lower infant mortality rate. Obviously, the abuses and depredations...