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...these musicians are reaching back into their country's heritage, using traditional instruments and singing about Irish political themes. Irish pop music experts point out that in the past few years the genre has diversified. There's House of Pain, an Irish-American rap group that features b-boy bravado and beer-soaked rhymes ("Coming with the style of a Celtic rebel/ Those that ain't on my level call me the blue-eyed devil"), and the Belfast grunge band Therapy?, whose debut album Nurse wallows in pounding metal rhythms and anarchistic attitude ("I don't need...
Posse members described their exploits with bravado. Founding member Dana Belman, 20, explained that members received a point each time they achieved orgasm with a different girl and boasted that he had scored 63 points. Billy Shehan, 19, bragged that he was the highest scorer, with 66 points. "My parents were a little surprised," he said. "They thought it was more like 50." Shehan said that while many of the boys did not use condoms when intercourse was involved, he did. "I buy them by the boxload," he explained...
...unexpected and unprecedented show of political bravado, the leadership of AAA committed the organization to strong positions and demands without consulting the members of the organization. By fist of the officers, AAA has sponsored the public condemnation of "the erroneous and racist" sentiments expressed by Professor Harvey C. Mansfield Jr., issued demands for the development of an ethnic studies requirement under the core curriculum, and called for an official investigation into the role of "institutionalized racism" at Harvard, among other things. We consider these actions--which were initiated and executed with neither general deliberation nor a democratic vote--unrepresentative...
...loses here? Most certainly, the BSA loses, because across our campus, students, both Black and white, shake their heads at its President's attempts at bravado at the expense of dialogue. Dhananjai Shivakumar...
...their bravado, many of the hacker hoods come from broken homes and have deep psychological problems. Rosenfeld's parents split up when he was 15, and the young man recalls brutal physical fights with his hard-drinking father. Several months ago, the hacker literally hacked his wrists with a razor, in his second attempt to kill himself since 1991. "Most of my childhood is a blur, partly because of LSD and partly because I just don't want to remember," says Rosenfeld, who is open, insightful and very likable when he removes the cybermask. "I have no clue...