Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father was sitting in the back row, [and when I won], he stood up and said, `That's my boy!' Four guys in front of him turned around and said, `Mazel Tov,'" Rosenblatt said...
From MIT's East Cambridge campus to his hometown of Tempe, Ariz., Manley's friends and family are mourning their loss. "He was a wonderful boy who filled our lives with joy," said William Manley...
...Howard University, Combs was a business major but schooled himself in party throwing. In 1989 he dropped out and returned to New York. He joined Andre Harrell's Uptown Records, where he rose rapidly from intern to vice president, launching Bad Boy there in 1991. Combs' greatest debacle still dogs him: a disastrous stampede that year in which nine people died at an oversold party he promoted with the rapper Heavy D. Last month a judge found that both men and New York's City College, the host of the event, shared responsibility for the deaths, although the finding carries...
...Combs had become so rebellious and impatient that Harrell fired him. "He was hot tempered, very passionate, very creative," says Harrell, who now is a consultant to Bad Boy. "But Puff was like Dennis the Menace. Every now and then something would get broken." (Combs' huffing and puffing earned him his nickname.) When Combs exited Uptown, Arista's Clive Davis stepped in and gave him another chance...
...Power and success didn't change Puffy," says one former associate. "He's always been a great businessman and a master manipulator." Combs rules Bad Boy with a firm, sometimes ruthless hand, controlling a dozen producers and rappers, supervising them in the studio, approving their lyrics and sometimes even dictating the color of their shoes. If he is tough, Combs says, it's because "there's never been an opportunity like this, even back in the Motown days. Very few people have the chance to be their own boss, to own what they create." Sometimes, to lead...