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...Cent is everywhere.He’s on billboards, magazine covers, CDs, radio programs, television talk shows, and now he can be seen on the silver screen in “Get Rich Or Die Tryin’,” which is loosely based on his life story.That story is the stuff of legends. 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, grew up without a father in the drug-plagued New York neighborhood of South Jamaica, Queens. He started selling crack at the age of 12 after his mother—a dealer herself—was murdered...
...rapper/actor), and a banging hip-hop soundtrack. Unfortunately, the film tells the same story we’ve heard hundreds of times in a manner suggesting that even 50 is bored. Disregarding the fact that “Get Rich” is a Shady/Aftermath production and Marcus (50 Cent) rolls with the same fat dude (Omar Miller) that B. Rabbit runs with in “8 Mile,” comparisons to Eminem’s silver screen debut are still inevitable. The pitch is simple: Take one of the world’s most famous rappers...
...fact that not one red cent of Harvard’s $25.9 billion endowment is being used to protect its students from falling foliage is outrageous. We come to Cambridge from all corners of the globe expecting an institution that practices what it preaches: a devotion to excellence and unabashed superiority. If we wanted an acorn-induced concussion or to get wet when it rains, we would have gone to Yale or Princeton. But at Harvard, we expect something more. In fact, we are entitled...
...blatant plea for urban legitimacy is all the more baffling given the fact that her upcoming album “Confessions on a Dancefloor” is being publicized as a Euro-techno romp and the song itself bears as little relation to hip-hop as the average 50 Cent track does to, well, Madonna...
...issue of homelessness almost everyone is ambivalent. I, for one, have never given a single cent to a panhandler. And, sometimes I kinda feel bad about it. You might not share my strongly-held belief that offering money to beggars is enabling behavior, but most people do vacillate in their responses to the poverty in our midst. Perhaps you sometimes give change and occasionally purchase a Spare Change newspaper because it seems more legitimate. Invariably, though, you turn on the blinders, face forward, and ignore the squalor of the busy city, vaguely mouthing lies like...