Word: customizers
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...Custom records: Expensive specially-commissioned records for a battle DJ to use in his routines. Controversial, and popular in Europe...
Zornow also possesses a sometimes-alienating, almost self-righteous old-school sensibility. He’s deeply nostalgic for the golden era of DJing in the late 1990s, and laments the rise of “custom records,” which DJs commission specially for their battle routines...
...because so many fans left instructions before they died to have their ashes scattered on the playing field of La Bombonera (the "candy box," as the Boca football stadium in the city of Buenos Aires is known)," says Boca press officer Laura Acosta. Inspiration also came from a widespread custom of club fans of adorning the gravesites of relatives in other cemeteries with Boca-inspired decorations...
...childhood sexual abuse, she became a goddess in a society convinced that it's good to talk. While thousands of courageous Muslims regularly speak out on taboo subjects, the reception is often not so warm. Five years ago, Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani gang-rape victim, defied tribal custom by taking her rapists to court. In the West, she won plaudits and prizes, but in Pakistan, her legal struggle against her accused rapists continues, and she has been widely denounced as having shamed her country abroad...
...moral high ground. The ivory-tower activist only need reach for his keyboard, or, if he feels adventurous that day, grab a placard and march in the square, to soothe his weary conscience worn down by the moral baggage of upper-middle-class luxury. Common sense approved by custom once deemed the best goods to be those most difficult to attain—the postmodern Academy has, thanks to the e-mail petition (located at www.UBSpetition.org, if you are curious), overthrown that logic.But this activism’s meddling morality, for all of its ease, most inexcusably errs...