Word: flash
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...BIRTH OF THE BEEF: Fifteen years after Bronx M.C.s like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five pioneered hip-hop, New York City rapper Tim Dog's 1991 single F___ Compton took aim at the growing L.A. scene and, with it, Suge Knight's Death Row Records. Knight, for his part, focused his ire on a brash young New York producer named, back then, Puff Daddy...
...FINAL TRUCE? On March 9, East and West Coast icons Diddy and Snoop officially buried the hatchet by touring together. Days later, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame--the first hip-hop artists to achieve such recognition. Some feuds may go on, but rap's Wild West era may be over...
Today we fret about the growing partisanship and scurrilous sensationalism of the press, but our media are simply reverting to mid--19th century form. Nearly all dailies back then were extravagantly partisan, and the "sporting papers"--the Scorpion, the Sunday Flash, the Weekly Rake--provided lurid, low-down, gossipy coverage of celebrities and sex and crime...
...Flash forward two years and nationally the Democrats are (finally) in power, and the Harvard College Democrats appear to be the loftiest, most influential organization on campus. But their prominence on campus is now a mutated takeover, one that resembles some horrific virus from a Michael Crichton science-fiction saga. I’ve got the Center for Disease Control on speed dial because many of my liberal compatriots are infected by something that I fear may be highly contagious...
...Still no offers yet. But don’t blink now—at the center of Harvard’s rising program is a young man who could be gone in a flash...