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...Boys and Eminem is featured in a lecture on “whiteness” in the genre. This atomistic treatment does a disservice to rap elders like the white MC Serch of old-school group 3rd Bass—who helped break the careers of Nas and MF Doom (both black)—and to the multiracial breakdancing crews seen in 1982’s “Wild Style.” Neither example conforms to the neat classification of rap as a purely “black” form.Still, to deny the tumultuous interplay...
...guided assassins to the homes of their neighbors. Iraqis like Isam al-Rawi, a Baghdad University geology professor and Sunni politician, kept their guns close and loaded. "I have to be ready for anything," he says. For him, the decapitation of the mosque in Samarra was an omen of doom. "I said to myself, 'This is it. The Shi'ites are going to go mad. This is the start of the civil...
...Cotton Club”: Francis Ford Coppola’s abysmal depiction of the infamous Harlem night club was a huge pitfall for Gere. Cheap lines like, “You’ve got about as much style as a bowl of turnips,” solidified his doom. Unfortunately, that quip was also an insult to turnips everywhere...
...website is the brainchild of Harry I. Ritter ’06, Adam J. Katz ’07, and Jeremiah L. Lowin ’07. If the blog-based venture is successful, it could spell doom for the large e-mail lists and list-servs that CampusTap’s creators call “incredibly inefficient and messy ways of communicating...
...reluctant to mess with what it sees as a winning formula. But Levy tells Time: "I don't know of any product that has only one price, or that has only one perceived value to the consumer." Currently, downloads of single songs outpace those of albums, theoretically spelling doom for one of the industry's most lucrative formats. EMI Music vice chairman David Munns says that's O.K., and likens the change to the situation in days of yore when 45 r.p.m. records and LPs thrived simultaneously. "People go in and buy the single and a couple of other tracks...