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...goes the 184.5 miles to John Brown’s stakeout, Harper’s Ferry W.Va.). After the DC/Maryland line, cut behind the backyards of suburban DC’s swankier ’hoods, and you’ll quickly find yourself at a Honda dealership smack dab in the middle of Bethesda...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, M. AIDAN Kelly, and Sam Teller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Clip 'n' Save | 5/18/2006 | See Source »

...squalid Iberville housing projects (average annual income of its 833 households: $7,279), sitting just next door to the Vieux Carr off Canal Street. If the visitors had taken a few steps beyond Tulane University and the nearby Garden District mansions, they would have found themselves smack-dab in the middle of a ghetto choked with rudimentary shotgun houses, dilapidated housing projects and living conditions that seem only slightly better than those in Port-au-Prince, Bangladesh or Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The City Tourists Never Knew | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

...liner notes, ?uestlove says that they had been performing the track since 1991, smack dab in the middle of the first generation of “alternative” rap, even though most people consider the Roots as messengers of the second generation...

Author: By J. samuel Abbott, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Home Grown! | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...Pepper at a third cousin’s bat mitzvah. I looked at her as I would at an epileptic Hmong child (very curiously, that is), and she proceeded to rap every word of the entire song. I immediately felt the symptoms of “quab dab peg” (Hmong for “The spirit catches you and you fall down.”) Wow, “Gold Digger” must be some song, right? It must be if this girl would sacrifice three minutes of conversation (with me, no less) to recite song lyrics...

Author: By Teddy M. Bressman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pop Screen | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

...house. One, two, three? " Each morning at her rented flat in Vancouver, Canada, between yawns and yoga stretches, Jacqueline McKenzie will listen to her language tapes. You'd think the 37-year-old graduate of Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art would be a dab hand at American accents by now, but you try saying such lines as "statistically significant disease cluster" in impeccable shotgun Seattle-style. As agent Diana Skouris in the Francis Ford Coppola-produced TV sci-fi series The 4400, McKenzie does that and more. The highest-rating debut on U.S. cable last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Punks to... Peachy | 6/5/2005 | See Source »

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