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...hard on the heels of "Rapper's Delight." Acts such as Eric B. and Rakim took the art of rhyming to a new level of profundity, their trickster lyrical gymnastics cutting up and reordering the world, while others, such as Public Enemy, used the format as a platform for social criticism and a revival of the nationalist politics of Malcolm X. De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest were among the leaders of an imaginative school of abstract poetics that stretched the envelope of the hip-hop form and sought to connect it with earlier musical traditions such as bebop...
...though. After snapping some pictures on a Kodak digital camera, I plugged it into my PC. A few seconds later, up pops a window displaying every image in the camera. I could view them in slide-show format, click on the ones I liked, then either save them to my hard drive or attach them to an e-mail...
...With just two weeks remaining until the first meeting on October 3 in Boston - the only debate to follow the conventional structure - Bush may be feeling a bit of trepidation. This is not his preferred format; the governor's campaign staff pushed hard for a lineup restricted to more "free-flowing" exchanges. Instead, Bush will have to get through one tough evening before relief hits. Gore is widely considered the favorite in the first debate; the vice president's formal manner and encyclopedic grasp of complicated issues are well suited to the ultra-structured format. He'll also...
...second meeting, scheduled for October 11 in Winston-Salem, N.C., is Bush's best bet. Seated around a table, and moderated loosely by PBS newsman Jim Lehrer, the candidates won't so much debate as discuss. Bush's folksy demeanor should play well against Gore's stiffness, and the format will allow Bush to guide the conversation toward his comfort zone...
...that's right. After all this, they're going to meet in the original places, on the original dates. The format for the debates, Bush staffers maintain, is still up for negotiation. But that's pretty much the only x-factor remaining - a fact that leads to an obvious question: What exactly did Bush gain by stalling...