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...words of Gangstalicious from “The Boondocks,” Ice Cube “was so gangsta. I used to have dreams that Ice Cube would come to my house and kill my whole family.” It’s been disheartening to see the Ice Cube persona (if not the man himself) emasculated, sanitized, and dismantled over the last ten years in third-rate family films. After a decent comeback album in 2006, “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It”—the lead single...
...understand why, think of an ice cube. It starts out as water, but as it cools below 32F (oC), it undergoes what's called a phase transition--the same stuff assumes a whole different structure. An ice cube doesn't solidify all at once; the freezing starts in several spots, which grow until they meet. Unless the crystals are perfectly aligned, you get a defect--one of those white streaks inside most ice cubes...
...what we study. In many respects Harvard is the perfect place for it because it’s an institution where we can explore this in many profound ways.2.FM: You say that you started studying hip-hop academically while working at UCLA during the fallout after Ice Cube left NWA. How did this turn you to hip-hop? MM: I was teaching a course on urban speech communities, it was a classical anthropology course, and I kept getting all these essays about Ice Cube and so my first reaction was, “Hip-hop in the classroom? Stop...
Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, is the patron saint of cubicle dwellers. With his cartoons in 2,000 newspapers and 23 books under his belt, Adams' stature in America's workplaces is indisputable. Here he ventures slightly beyond his cube to write "a diary of my thoughts as I transmogrified from a bachelor to a husband," with more than 150 short essays on everything from aging brains to real estate on the moon, all of them delivered with his usual sardonic verve. This offbeat pundit is welcome news on or off the comics page...
...cube's taciturn founder Erno Rubik, 63, even made an appearance on the last day of the event and awarded prizes, dispelling rumors that he was distancing himself from the sport. "I'm glad the cube is reaching new generations," he said, "who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm...