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...final track, "Change Your Ways," could be one of the most original rap songs of the summer because it uses (gasp) a real drummer, Tony "Funky Drummer" Walls. Despite LL's sappy lyrics, which sound like a rap version of "We are the World," Walls gives this song some life. Why hasn't anyone thought of using real drums before...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Soft Tunes From a Hard Bragger | 6/30/1989 | See Source »

...spring morning, dozens of Europeans and Asians line up for excursions through Harlem, which sprawls northward from the top of Central Park for about 50 blocks. They gasp at the area's high and low life and attend a joyful church service. Typically, few of the tourists are black; fewer are New Yorkers. On a recent trip, one of these few spoke with a librarian at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and was complimented on his good English. When the downtowner asked if many New Yorkers took such tours, the librarian smiled: "Honey, you're about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Welcome To New Harlem! | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

With less than three minutes left, the Wildcats were desperate--their final gasp hit the goal post off a free throw and Dermody snagged the rebound...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Laxwomen Survive a Wildcat Scare | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

...indictment was long anticipated, but the size of the proposed penalties was enough to provoke a collective gasp among Wall Streeters. Last week a federal grand jury in Manhattan charged junk-bond king Michael Milken, 42, his brother Lowell, 40, and Bruce Lee Newberg, 31, a former colleague of theirs at the investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, with a total of 98 felony counts of stock manipulation, insider trading, racketeering and other crimes. The indictment calls for the three accused to forfeit their total compensation of $1.5 billion for 1984 through 1987 (plus interest of $257 million) and pay fines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking It All Back, Plus Interest | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

Think about February's 4-3 overtime victory over RPI at Troy, N.Y.A tired Crimson squad found one last gasp in Ted Donato...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Discipline: Skate, Forecheck and Score | 3/3/1989 | See Source »

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