Word: cd
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...Springsteen, Bruce • acknowledgement by that deal giving exclusivity on greatest hits CD to labor-unfriendly Wal-Mart was, well, idiotic • crotch-first slide into camera of during Super Bowl performance...
...Blackwell, an African American and a former Ohio secretary of state, who was widely viewed as too dogmatically conservative to head a party desperate for moderation and who eventually threw his support behind Steele. The original slate of candidates included Tennessee GOP chairman Chip Saltsman, who had distributed a CD containing a song titled "Barack the Magic Negro...
Saltsman, Chip • withdrawal of from race for chairmanship of the Republican National Committee after holiday CD distributed by-featuring the songs "Barack the Magic Negro" and "The Star Spanglish Banner"-was widely seen as unhilarious...
...folks is visibly lamer than it already was. But that's not just because Obama is half-black and half-white; it's because he is neither typically black (he comes out of the immigrant, not the slave, experience) nor typically white. Like Slumdog Millionaire or a mash-up CD, Obama represents a crossing of cultures. His story makes a larger argument: that nothing is as simple as it's made out to be. Black and white is not simply black and white. And neither, therefore, are our eternal us-vs.-them arguments over faith...
...parents were from Jamaica, but Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G., a.k.a. Biggie Smalls, was straight outta Brooklyn. In the mid-'90s, when the hottest, hardest rap came from California, Biggie restored some bicoastal equilibrium with his quadruple-platinum CD Ready to Die. After that, the headlines were mostly police-blotter stuff. In 1996 his ex-friend, then rival Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas. The following year, when Biggie made an incursion onto L.A. turf to promote his new album, he was shot and killed. (Neither murder was officially solved.) In 2003 Shakur got a zazzy...