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...Kingdom Come” can’t quite live up to “Reasonable Doubt”—Jay-Z’s gritty debut album that many, including the Jiggaman himself, claim to be his best work. It is, however, on par with more recent albums like “The Blueprint” and “The Black Album.” And like the latter, it’s a portrait of a matured, introspective man, though not one who is above his usual sense of self-importance or bravado...
...peaceful gangbangin’ is exacerbated by the strangest yet most awesome track on the album, “Imagine,” featuring Dr. Dre and D’Angelo. It begins with a claim by Snoop that the album is so gangsta, that the tone needs to be settled down a bit. This is inaccurate. But the track bangs anyway, with Dr. Dre actually singing a verse about hip-hop being a mostly positive force for black Americans...
Panelists warned yesterday that rulings by the court in these two cases in favor of the plaintiffs—who claim that the school districts’ policies of using ethnicity as a factor in school admittances is unconstitutional—would effectively reverse the precedent that Brown established...
...other former Navy sailors convicted in the murder later insisted that they had fabricated the confessions after detectives had subjected them to harsh and manipulative questioning. The one other man convicted for the murder - and the only one whose DNA was linked to the crime - has since recanted his claim that the other men were involved and now insists that he acted alone. The whole argument may seem like a stretch - it certainly did and does to the victim's family - but on Wednesday a Virginia judge accepted enough of it to rule that detectives had not honored Tice...
...powerful Kremlin faction wants the Boss to stay, insisting that the country needs him. Their real motivation, however, is the fear that anyone they appoint as a figurehead will inevitably claim the powers of the throne for real - just as Putin did. Although Putin delivered on the presumed promise of never touching the Yeltsin family, many a Yeltsin flunky lost his assets. The Kremlin power brokers want to prevent a repeat...