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...voices in the underground, Slug, who performed at the Middle East last Friday, is helping to push independent hip hop firmly into the public consciousness. The renaissance at the fringes has been winning over critics and fans alike, ranging from the lo-fi sampler virtuosity of Madlib and MF Doom and seething electronic grime of El-P (the anti-Timbaland) to the obtuse bohemian leanings of the Anticon clique. Though he’s flexed his lyrical muscles with nearly all of them, Slug brandishes his own critic-approved designations: “emo rap” and its unfortunately...
...movie’s greatest flaw is its inability to create a sympathetic character in Katie. The screenplay rarely delves thoughtfully into her mind; instead, it relys on shamelessly dramatic flashbacks of her father leaving her in a field of snow to give the audience insight into her doom-riddled fear of abandonment. Moreover, although the most crucial aspect of Katie’s affliction that feeds into the final plot twist is rather obvious right from the start, the movie chooses to pretend that the viewer has no clue about this key fact and plows through scene after scene...
When Hong Kong reverted to chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997, the air was full of forecasts of impending doom for the former British colony's individual freedoms. There were predictions of army tanks in the streets, democratic politicians thrown into jail, and personal liberties curtailed. Nothing like that happened, of course. Apart from anything else, Beijing knew better than to arouse international concern or upset the carefully crafted agreements with London over autonomy and the Basic Law, Hong Kong's new mini-constitution...
...year independence war with Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia. "Bobetko is a national hero," says one Zagreb man, reflecting the view of up to 80% of the population. Sending Bobetko to the Hague would be political suicide for Racan. Given the overwhelming support for Bobetko, cooperating with the prosecutors would doom his coalition, if not immediately then at the next election, due late next year. But not cooperating has its own risks. If a showdown with the U.N. were to occur, any sanctions imposed against Croatia would be cited by Racan's political opponents as proof that his government does...
...local dialect, means "big sea," suggesting the recent tsunami wasn't the first. It doesn't help that the noisy bemos?gaudily painted minibuses that zip around the snaking roads?are emblazoned with biblical names like Golgotha, Revelation and Beelzebub. They add to the sense of impending doom...