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...rapper 50 Cent were any more hardcore, he’d be dead. Not only is his debut album titled Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, this former crack dealer (born Curtis Jackson) was shot nine times in 2000—once in the jaw and once in the hip, in front of his grandmother’s house, no less. As he sings on “Many Men (Wish Death),” “Many men / Many, many, many men / Wish death upon...
Having first premiered in May of last year, delivered as a gift for the 300th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg, Russian Ark made its American debut in early February; critical awe—from Robert Ebert to the Village Voice (in which it appeared on five of six critics’ top-ten lists for 2002)—has followed wherever it goes. It makes its Cambridge debut on Friday at the Brattle Theatre...
...says Harvard can’t party? Freshman trio Brian D. Lee ’05, James C. Lee ’05 and Samir K. Trehan ’05 of the unofficial Harvard Breakers Organization (HBO) have been performing to packed crowds since their debut performances with the Contradictions Fashion Show and Expressions last semester. But this isn’t just fancy footwork. With moves derived from gymnastics, including flips, spins and flares, breakdancing is a way to get your full-body workout and be the life of the party. While it has taken the group several...
...simple: buy a small, listed American firm and move his own operations into its corporate shell. He has used such "backdoor listings" at home by buying a mango packer, shifting part of his meter business to it and renaming it Holley Science and Technology. For his U.S. debut, he chose a struggling, NASDAQ-listed California firm called American Champion Entertainment. Its main asset was a kids' TV show, Adventures with Kanga Roddy, about a karate-kicking marsupial. Wang paid $5 million in early 2001 for a controlling interest. Two months later, NASDAQ delisted the firm for having...
...Away Networking makes me deeply uncomfortable," says Brendan Barnes. That might seem like a fatal flaw for an entrepreneur with a strange passion to "reinvent the world of boring, burnt-coffee business conferences." But Barnes' discomfort led him to a gadget called Spotme, which makes its U.K. debut at his upcoming London Business Forum. Developed by a tiny Swiss company called Shockfish, Spotme thrusts the awkward business of fumbling for names and exchanging business cards into the 21st century. Upon entering a conference, delegates' pictures and details are taken, then beamed to Spotme devices issued to everyone in attendance. Scroll...