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...outlived its earlier commercialization. Founded on the sequential exchange of lyrics over prerecorded beats, rap is already the most explicitly historical form of popular music; enough intertextuality to make Barthes blush—whether in quoted rhymes, posse shout-outs or P-Funk samples—is a constitutive element of the rapper’s craft. The tension between lyrical innovation and “respect for the culture” allows Nas to decry “a rhymebiter’s rthyme” on his debut album Illmatic, while still drawing lyrical nourishment from idols like...
...understand Christianity, and its implications for our life and our community.” Most of this work is done in small groups which meet for about an hour-and-a-half each week in a student’s room. There’s “an element of hanging out, an element of bible study and discussion,” Bryant says. No rigid rules govern how the meetings are structured, and the informal atmosphere facilitates bonding among the membership.This sense of community is essential to their mission, according to members of the HRCF governing board. Even...
...modified to better reflect the college’s differences before next year’s drive. This year, Harvard managed to raise its blood quota by nearly 12 percent. Yale’s total dropped more than 6 percent from last year. Ye said that the competitive element raised attendance at Yale but added that most people had humanitarian motivations for donating. “I honestly don’t think that people give blood to beat Harvard,” he said. Salovey, the Yale College dean, was photographed sporting a Harvard baseball cap as punishment...
...been par for the course. But when it comes to the more important subject of snacking, everyone knows that there is no better feeling than feeding a machine some money and having it reward you with delicious processed foodstuffs. It avoids the irksome “human” element of buying things from a store and makes you feel like if only they had electricity in Africa, maybe people wouldn’t be so hungry. It’s probably even cooler in Japan, where you can text message your choice to the vending machine, almost...
...demands - and that the alternatives are worse. But many secular liberals in Pakistan complain that Musharraf brandishes the jihadi threat to maintain military rule and suppress Pakistan's main moderate political parties, quite a far cry from the democratic values trumpeted by the Bush Administration. The jihadist element has long been nurtured by the Pakistani security establishment, which cultivated it during the anti-Soviet campaign in Afghanistan in the 1980s (later helping the Taliban to seize power) and used it also to wage a proxy war against India in the disputed territory of Kashmir. Two decades after the onset...