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I think people got the message when Nas said [in the title of his 2006 album] Hip Hop Is Dead. There was just a lack of creativity, a lack of fresh energy in the music. When people don't stretch and expand and try different things, music gets boring. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Queen Latifah | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

Which happens to be his strong suit. Through 4 1/2 hours of high-stakes presidential debating, Obama never looked unprepared, even for an instant. He looked slippery now and then - they all do. He looked boring sometimes. He even seemed to strive for boring, to understand that boring is good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain Throws Sink, and Plumber, But Obama Isn't Rattled | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

And while the morbid pull of China's brutal twentieth century history is ever present, it's the portraits of the migrant workers and their lives - at once exciting and mind-numbingly boring, crowded and starkly isolated - that are at the book's heart. The painstaking work Chang put into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside China's Factories | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

Yet after more than a dozen primary debates and two previous high-stakes presidential debates, Obama has remained calm to the point of being boring, and so low-energy that McCain often appears to be arguing with himself. Obama nevertheless is uniformly confident and well prepared, his natural demeanor translating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Final Debate, Can McCain Rattle an Imperturbable Foe? | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

Jonathan Carroll’s special blend of novel resists attempts to classify it. It’s not science fiction, nor is it fantasy, nor is it realistic. His newest novel, “The Ghost in Love,” tells the story of a man who is...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Carroll Doesn’t Give Up ‘Ghost’ | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

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