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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...existed as a rich fusion of four elements—DJing, breakdancing, rapping, and graffiting. These elements collectively comprised an alternative form of entertainment and self-expression for inner-city youth, while creating a burgeoning impetus for social change. At the center of this cultural maelstrom was Grandmaster Flash, né Joseph Saddler, who, along with fellow DJs Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaata, formed a veritable holy trinity of hip-hop. In the 30 years since Saddler’s heydey, however, the genre’s rough edges have been whittled down to reveal a slick, commercially malleable force...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grandmaster Flash | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...remember my first viral video. The year was 2001, and I was a fresh-faced teenager with my first high-speed Internet connection. Someone showed me a Flash animation featuring 1980s Japanese video-game images repurposed into a techno-music montage. Or something. I'm not really sure. I didn't understand All Your Base Are Belong To Us then, and I don't understand it now, but I can't deny its Internet significance. All I remember is that people wouldn't stop saying "Somebody set up us the bomb" for at least a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Internet's 99 Greatest Hits | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...flash poll” taken by the Business School’s MBA Career Services in mid-February showed that 90 percent of second-year Business School job-seekers had received offers—down just slightly from a year ago, according to Managing Director of MBA Career Services Jana P. Kierstead. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...

Author: By William N. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MBA Student Hiring Steady | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

...editing error, the Feb. 24 news article "MBA Student Hiring Steady" incorrectly stated that a “flash poll” taken by the Harvard Business School’s MBA Career Services in mid-February showed that 90 percent of second-year Business School students seeking jobs had received offers. In fact, the poll reported that 77 percent of second-year students seeking jobs had received offers...

Author: By William N. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MBA Student Hiring Steady | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

Masked teenagers lob bricks at police shields, middle-aged women wave banners and chant slogans against repression, while police tanks fire water cannons into rowdy crowds. These images may evoke anti-globalization protests at some high-powered economic summit, but in northern Mexico, they're the latest flash point in the nation's incessant drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Drug War Takes to the Barricades | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

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