Word: bragging
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...life imitating rap? Faster than you could rhyme "niggaz" and "triggaz" (standard rap prosody) people were asking whether rappers -- especially those from the Thugs-'R'-Us subcategory called gangsta rap -- are too quick to use the guns they brag about in their songs. "Who is the man with the master plan?" asks a lyric by Snoop Doggy Dogg. "A nigga witta motherf-----' gun." Two weeks ago Snoop, 22, was charged as an accomplice to murder...
Harvard is left, for the most part, with a casually destructive attitude toward Cambridge's vegetation. People here would rather brag about the number of dead trees on library shelves than laud the live ones that turn color outside. The trees that do eke out an existence here have a gritty urban sensibility. They're A Tree Grows in Brooklyn trees, struggling against pollution and graffiti; noble California redwoods or wild New Hampshire oaks they...
...National Collegiate Athletic Association traces its roots all the way back to that spring day when Old Joe became the land's best college tennis player. But if the Crimson can boast about the first crown, it can't brag about many since...
...National Collegiate Athletic Association traces its roots all the way back to that spring day when Old Joe became the land's best college tennis player. But if the Crimson can boast about the first crown, it can't brag about many since...
...Benson High School last year, and works digging fence holes while awaiting trial. "I'm trying to stay away from guns now, but it's like everybody has them. Guys will be like, 'I've got a 9-mm, and you've only got a peashooter.' Or they'll brag that 'my brother has a MAC-10.' As crazy as it's getting, I think it should be illegal to have a gun," he says...