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...Unfortunately, Jones fails, offering instead the conventional definition of gangsta rap that the naïve have come to accept and the knowledgeable have begun to ignore. Released on February 19th, “Harlem’s American Gangster” was not compiled as a bona fide album but as a mixtape in response to Brooklyn-born Jay-Z and his 2007 album “American Gangster.” Hosted by Hova’s ex-partner in crime, Damon Dash, the mixtape represents a continuation of the beef between the two hip-hop moguls with...
...Regardless of whether overwhelming conservative support comes, McCain can already feel the effects of being a bona fide front-runner. The campaign raised $7 million in January, including $1 million the first day after the Florida win. The campaign itself has also grown exponentially, from the 20-30 people (including press) who were traveling regularly with the Senator early in the month to the approximately 95 who piled onto the chartered Jet Blue Airbus 320 that flew the whole show from Newark to San Diego and finally to Phoenix on Super Tuesday. After a crowded, chaotic press conference featuring Rudy...
...intelligence report, which downplayed the Iranian nuclear threat, did little to help U.S. credibility on the issue. So even a brief act of aggression by Iran became welcome evidence for the U.S. case. Skeptics say Washington sees in the encounter as much a p.r. opportunity as a bona fide threat. "The fact that it comes a couple of days before the President sets off on his trip raises questions," says Professor Gary Sick, an Iran expert at Columbia University...
...Hooters: “We just can’t hire you because of our BFOQ standards.” FM: “What?” Hooters: “The BFOQ standards.” Sorry gents! Apparently BFOQ, bona fide occupational qualifications, is the terminology Hooters uses to say that you need a pair of breasts to be a waiter. So there you have it, Justice students: BFOQ standards...
Laffer is a bona fide economist with a doctorate from Stanford. He's also largely responsible for the Republican belief that tax cuts pay for themselves. Now 67, Laffer runs economic-consulting and money-management firms in Nashville. About the best I could get out of him on the question of whether the Bush tax cuts have paid for themselves was "I don't know." But that's only part of the story...