Word: em
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with kids who come to school with weird hairdos and horns on their hats? It's not just jocks; the whole school's disgusted with them. They're a bunch of homos, grabbing each other's private parts. If you want to get rid of someone, usually you tease 'em. So the whole school would call them homos, and when they did something sick, we'd tell them, 'You're sick and that's wrong...
...artist; Nas has started wrestling with the issues at the core of life in places like the Queensbridge Projects, where he grew up. This is not to say that he has completely abandoned mindless thug banter, such as the "Kill, Kill, Kill/Murder, Murder, Murder" refrain of "Shoot 'em up," but he has certainly clawed his way into hip-hop's most elite circles of lyricism. Any doubters should check out "Project Windows," a track with Ron Isley that might make even Rudy Giuliani weep for the less fortunate...
...matter where I go, I see the same ho." There are some women who are kind of ho-ish. But there are Tupac songs that uplift women: "Daddy's all gone and he left you by your lonesome. Thank the lord for my kids even if nobody else wants em. But you can make it. So stand up, Stand tall...
Lesson 3: In a crisis, dignity can be a powerful motivator. Never let 'em see you retch...
...officer commanding the base, Colonel Yuri Em, invites us to lunch. No one was expecting us, we are told as we sit down to a light but tasty lunch of borscht followed by meat and buckwheat and served by young women in dazzling white mess jackets. Somehow this does not seem like daily fare. The soldiers on perimeter duty are not very talkative, in part because there are officers present. Morale is definitely higher than during the last war; casualties for many units have so far been...