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...over non-OPEC producers. Although Russian officials told an OPEC summit last December that they too would cut production, the country "has repeatedly failed to do so, and the Russian government has done absolutely nothing to exert its influence" on oil companies, says Julian Lee, senior analyst at the Center for Global Energy Studies in London. (See pictures from Azerbaijan's oil boom...
...cadence are known to draw the masses (and rightly so). Finally RZA’s production on a number of tracks and involvement with the project as a whole gives the album a raw, understated feel that pairs well with the lyrical content and puts the rapping front and center instead of the beats.With all its grit and top notch lyricism, “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II” is more than just a great sequel. It’s testament to the vibrancy and strength of the gangster hip-hop culture, filling...
...Harvard Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy announced its slate of fall fellows earlier this week—a group of two journalists and two academics who will stay at Harvard to research issues confronting the modern press. The Shorenstein fellowship program, now in its twenty-fourth year, funds a semester-long term for experts in news media. Fellows are selected by a committee of the Shorenstein Center’s senior staff and Kennedy School faculty. This year’s fellows are John G. Geer, a Vanderbilt professor...
...Arriaga’s films have always impressed, Iñárritu’s direction set them spinning at a frenetic pace with only their own centrifugal force seeming to hold them together. Directing his own work for the first time, Arriaga reveals a stillness at the center of “The Burning Plain” that one wishes had appeared in his earlier work. For any director to make sense of one of Arriaga’s screenplays is remarkable, but for a first-timer to create a film of such elegance shows preternatural directorial insight...
Jackson's center of political gravity was the city's public housing. But the tactic of busing poor African-American voters from the projects is no longer viable, even if there were a machine dedicated to it. The projects have been bulldozed or turned into mixed-income developments over the past two decades, Meanwhile, Atlanta's black mayors encouraged affluent whites to move into blighted or vacant areas of the city, and the real estate boom of the 1990s made it happen. In the past decade, Atlanta has elected whites to a number of city-wide offices, including the council...