Word: breakers
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...sunglasses and white polo shirt—collar popped—provoke some competitors to roast him as middle-class, but he withstands the barbs through opponent after opponent. After two one-minute rounds between Liu and Floyd-Prewitt, judges still cannot decide between them. One 30-second tie-breaker round later, Liu walks off with the spoils—a $50 gift certificate to Massive.AT WHAT PRICE VICTORY?MC Mikal takes his loss in stride. “I’ve been rapping for a long time,” he says. “It?...
...Cha” rapper. One of the best hip-hop singles artist of the last ten years, the 33-year-old ex-Leader of the New School/Native Tongues badass/Grand Inquisitor of the Scenario/Co-Keeper of Y’all in Check/General Director of Hands Placement for Visual Optimization/Executive Breaker of Necks/Ordained Minister of Courvoisier Passage/Professor Emeritus of Lighting Ya Ass On Fire finally sounds a little tired. And while I wish more rappers were able to hold down a steady career after hitting 30, it probably isn’t going to happen for the Flipmode founder. Producer Swizz Beatz samples...
...understand what makes shoppers reach for their wallets. At a Sephora perfumery in central Paris, for example, Hugo Boss's new men's fragrance, Energize, is thoughtfully organized on stand-alone shelves complete with dipsticks for sampling. Don't be fooled: that little five-shelf contraption known as a breaker column?positioned so that it masks competitors' brand names?is expected to give sales a lift. It costs $7,200 a month to place it in 180 French stores. Aron walks me through the perfumery, a chain he knows well because he once managed purchasing and marketing for the company...
...first proposal, for instance, is to put patients' interests first. But mixed among the ideas, planners included an out-of-the-box proposal that would allow private clinics to offer certain services currently available only under Medicare and--gadzooks!--charge the patients directly for them. Another Canadian-taboo breaker is a proposal to allow Alberta doctors to work simultaneously in and outside the public-health sector; now doctors must choose one or the other. Antonia Maioni, director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, calls the plan a significant departure from the status quo. "It's not turning...
Kathy Delaney-Smith hung up her whistle for a little while last March, after Harvard fell to Dartmouth in an Ivy League tie-breaker just one game before the NCAA tournament...