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...messengers go, Seanna Walsh certainly had street cred. The I.R.A. veteran had spent 21 years in prison for a series of offenses, including bombmaking, before he delivered a statement last week formally ending the organization's 36-year armed campaign to force Britain out of Northern Ireland. But skeptics noted that the group had made promises in the past without ever fully giving up violence--or the intimidation of witnesses to foil prosecutions. To address the doubters, Cabinet members in London and Dublin asked a watchdog agency to report next January on whether the I.R.A. is sticking...
...still sounds pricey, I'm with you. They're fun, but they're also funny, and by that I mean funny looking. The woefully unhip won't be getting any cred for these, but Oakley and iZon sure hope they...
...American University in Cairo. Parsons goes so far as to suggest that the English channel could cash in on al-Jazeera's bad-boy rep with viewers who have become cynical about the mainstream media. "In the younger market, al-Jazeera actually carries a lot of street cred," he says. "It is perceived as being slightly antiestablishment, the enfant terrible of broadcasting." In a 4 1/2-min. p.r. video being prepared for potential distributors and advertisers, al-Jazeera execs refrain from using bin Laden's image but otherwise do little to downplay militancy. To a techno beat, the video shows...
While most Boston area bands fret over their indie cred, Bell unapologetically proclaims mainstream aspirations: “We want to be big, dumb rock stars. We want to be able to have the freedom to make the records that we want to make and have them heard. We’re lucky in that we like and want to make pop music that lots of people can enjoy...
GIVEN YOUR SUCCESS, HOW DO YOU MAINTAIN STREET CRED? Honestly, I always keep the focus of what I do on the skating itself. I've turned away plenty of endorsements and promotional opportunities when the basis was not around skating. Quality skating will always be at the forefront of the image I project, and if I start sucking, then I don't deserve any of this stuff, and I won't be out there promoting...