Word: ghetto
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...voice with the murder of Tupac Shakur. During his lifetime, Pac elevated hip hop to an art form—he “changed the game,” as rappers like to say—by recording disturbing yet deeply moving songs about the horrors of the ghetto and, later, about the perils of celebrity...
...Charles, the cops and I all crossed a line; it was a little bit of a rush for me. How about for them? Orthopedic surgeons are a practical lot. In fact, practical considerations probably "justified" swiping the knife. But couldn't one easily justify everything that night, including a ghetto kid's making a living as a burglar, or the tired cops leaving a potential weapon on him at the hospital, or even ramming him in a dangerous chase in the first place...
...avoid trouble. Here’s the rub however: the parade is not actually passing through the Old City or the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods. It does not even come close to any holy site. It will be happening in the “free”, universal, non-ghetto part of the city, the part that the ultra-Orthodox and Arab residents keep away from anyway...
...That Eros was banned, and Ginzburg imprisoned, says less about the magazine and more about the times (and the Times). As everyone now agrees, the 60s really began with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The Vietnam protests, the ghetto uprisings, and of course sex, drugs and rock 'n roll cracked open, like a raptor from its egg. For the first years of that decade, we were, essentially, still in the 50s, with Doris Day reigning on the big screen and Father Knows Best on the small...
...surprisingly, for many of the same ghetto residents he calls "my people," Zidane's head-butt of Marco Materazzi was a source of pride rather than shame. Kids on the streets of France's banlieue told reporters that defending his honor was more important than the World Cup. Indeed, Zidane's mother may have been speaking for more than just her family when she told a British newspaper, "Our whole family is deeply saddened that Zinedine's career should end with a red card but at least he has his honor. Some things are bigger than football...