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Next weekend, Harvard faces No. 5 Princeton and MIT in a battle for the Compton Cup. Last year, the Tigers beat out the Crimson by 2.3 seconds...
...Catsam 1 H—Hale 1, Mann 1. 2B: C—Buckmiller 1, Compton 1 H—Mager 1, Shakir 1, Sheffield 1. Pitchers: H—Sheffield W 1-1 (6.1 IP, 5 ER, 6 K), C—Doveala L 1-4 (6.0 IP, 6 ER, 7 K). Attendance...
...gloom of 20th-century America arose the constructed angst of a group of young urban lyricists. Hailing from the East Coast communities of Crooklyn, Mo’ Money Manhattan, the Boogie-Down Bronx and Illidelphia, or from across the wheated plains in the West Coast’s LBC, Compton and El Barrio, these poets raged with urban fury against “the man,” “the money,” “playa hatas” and “baby mamas.” The martyred poet Biggie Smalls, a victim...
...Barnum, Bill Veeck and someone out on a day pass, Richard taught his daughters tennis from instructional videos he had bought. While living in Compton, Calif., with little money, he said he was flipping channels and saw Romanian player Virginia Ruzici win a $35,000 check. He then hid his wife's birth-control pills in order to create a tennis player. He says he even got a friend to steal her purse so she wouldn't have her pills. In a new book, Venus Envy, Richard tells author L. Jon Wertheim that he owns the air rights over India...
...international hip-hop compilations. Beyond his mere reach, Dre has also brought depth. Pepe Mogt, a composer who founded Tijuana's hip Nortec Collective of DJs, says, "What he did with his music was very influential for us because he created music that described the place of his origin [Compton, Calif.], which is something we try to do. Also, his sound is just incredible...