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...with any other medium, the vast majority of music videos produced is predictably derivative rubbish. A slew of directors have made a pretty penny from scanning Hype Williams blueprints, cutting and pasting the appropriate rapper, and reprinting the formula endlessly. Prime culprits are Little X and Chris Robinson, who crank out seemingly nonstop streams of product, developing greater intimacy with their fish-eye lenses than with the artists’ music. They have created a combined total of over 150 videos for the libidinous likes of Mystikal and R. Kelly, representing the industry’s rough equivalent of Danielle...
...sites or bought from middlemen who steal them from unguarded dumps. They daisy-chain three or four together to spread out explosive power and set them along roads traveled by U.S. convoys. When the lead vehicle passes a marker, one of the men sets off the mines with a crank detonator connected to them by wires; the others provide covering fire. Lately they have begun staging more elaborate, two-phase attacks that require up to a dozen men. In these missions, after mines are set off under convoys, hidden fighters launch rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) at the stopped vehicles...
When the Rolling Stones crank up their guitars at the HMS Tamar exhibition ground in November, they'll be blasting out a message that Hong Kong wants the whole world to hear: the territory has shaken off the SARS scare and is once again open for business?and pleasure. After a nightmarish spring and summer when it was ground zero for severe acute respiratory syndrome, Hong Kong is quickly reclaiming its position as one of Asia's biggest tourist draws...
...North Koreans have raised the stakes on the U.S. by announcing new nuclear achievements, and there are considerable grounds for fearing that Pyongyang may once again play hardball. If so, the U.S. will hope that the exercise at least impresses on the host nation, China, the need to crank up the pressure on its wayward protege...
...Neptunes remain hybrid people. A typical Neptunes track might mix classic rock riffs and hip-hop beats with '80s pop-culture remnants (like sound effects from Atari games or the rings from early mobile phones). For pop artists looking for urban credibility--your Timberlakes, Aguileras et al.--the Neptunes crank up the beat and the attitude. On the flip side, they imbue hard rappers with much needed emotional depth. "We want people to sound different," says Williams, who made the menacing Mystikal sound funky on Shake Ya Ass and Snoop Dogg almost tender on Beautiful. "Taking somebody from...