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...urban poets of the 1990s became fake black mafiosi with legendary gangster surnames, telling fantasy crime tales that were ridiculous to anyone familiar with real ghetto street crime. The socially conscious lament began to disappear with Dr. Dre’s 1992 magnum opus, The Chronic. The music that Chuck D had called the “CNN of the hood” was replaced by a downwardly spiraling culture defined largely by fraudulent performance and outright glorification of ghetto nihilism in exchange for financial success...
...Carlyle Group and a spread in Gascony. Yet the Chancellor, it appears, still dreams of the premiership, still lets what he believes to be Blair's broken promises to stand down gnaw at his soul. That's no way for a good man to spend his time. Chuck it, Gordon; go for the Bank...
...gave Steelers coach Bill Cowher a contract extension after last season's 6-10 performance. Cowher, 47, is in his 13th year with the Steelers, who have made the playoffs in nine of those years. Over the past 36 years, the team has had just two coaches, Cowher and Chuck Noll. During that time, the Indianapolis, n Baltimore, Colts have gone through...
...Harry is rock solid, even on the little things," says New York Senator Chuck Schumer. "If he promises you there won't be a vote after 7 p.m., he'll find some creative way to make sure the vote doesn't happen. His whip counts are always accurate. If he says he'll get you five votes, he does. And he is tough. When people do the wrong thing, when they take the easy way out on a vote, he lets them know it. And he doesn't forget." These sorts of things, as opposed to charm or ideology...
...long-time Sandy Weill sidekick, Chuck Prince might have got a chance to run Citigroup in any event. But a progression of Citi scandals that began in the dotcom-bubble years with shady Enron dealings and stock touting for troubled telecoms quickened this lawyer's ascent. Prince, 54, landed the CEO job little more than a year ago. Since then, old improprieties have continued to surface, posing new p.r. nightmares-- including Citi's private-banking operation being banned from Japan just a few months ago for failing to guard against money laundering, among other things. To atone, Prince bowed deeply...