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Just Blaze’s guitar and horns assault gives Ghostface something to yell over, and he transforms the vague “I’m better than you guys” slog into a universally potent threat. It’s a boast song that’s so good, it sounds like a diss track, and it’s the best once I can think of since Jay-Z’s “The Takeover...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ghostface Killah | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

...space annually?half the world's yearly total?and plans to add another 20-30 billion by 2020. In theory, this should offer limitless opportunities for innovative urban planning. But as China's cities have grown larger, they have only become more uniform, so that each now seems to boast a skyscraping government office, roads scaled like highways and a vast Tiananmen-like square. This alikeness results largely from a dearth of professional designers and from the fact that breakneck growth leaves scant time for subtlety. But it also reflects a value system in which city infrastructure is conceived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Force Of Nature | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...goals against Cornell came with the man advantage, and the Big Red had previously killed 26 consecutive chances. Moreover, Harvard has scored at least two power-play goals in three straight games. Meanwhile, the Bears (26-11-2) enter their eighth straight tournament appearance and boast the best penalty kill in the country (89.7 percent). “Maine has really good special teams,” junior defenseman Dylan Reese said. “[They have] one of best power plays in the country as well as penalty kill, and so we need to keep capitalizing on the power...

Author: By Julie R.S. Fogarty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Another Year, Another Time to Dance | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

...past half-century. Known as the "chair triangle" (il triangolo della sedia), this district every year produces as many as 40 million chairs of all shapes and sizes--typically of beech and oak wood--for offices, homes, hotels, cruise ships, hospitals and restaurants around the world. Locals like to boast that the district in its heyday made 1 of every 3 chairs sold. The demand provided ample work for a tight-knit network of 1,100 highly specialized small firms. And it transformed a once modest rural area into one of Italy's richest and most dynamic commercial zones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight In Italy | 3/21/2006 | See Source »

Some students have punctured ethnic boundaries. The Black Students Association, the Chinese Students Association, Fuerza Latina, and Native Americans of Harvard College all boast memberships that transcend ethnic lines...

Author: By John R. Macartney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Integration Still Faces Hurdles | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

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