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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast, the French Club's modern French rap performance at this year's show was particularly refreshing. One club member began the performance by coming on stage wearing a beret and carrying a loaf of bread. He immediately dashed both to the ground, grabbing instead a microphone and starting to rap. His implicit statement: yes, berets and French bread define one part of my heritage, but don't think that you completely "understand" my sense of identity or me. Rather, he chose to show us the influence that hip-hop music and culture have had on his identity. If other...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler and Kamil E. Redmond, S | Title: The Miseducation of Cultural Rhythms | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

Smith, 29, said he never had the opportunity to go to college, because his music career got off the ground when he was very young...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, | Title: Service Network Offers Career Advice | 2/23/1999 | See Source »

...Forget that Democrats argued for years that such a system would never work. That was then. Now it's the newest item in their lengthening list of conservative takeovers. Defense hawks have been maddeningly one-upped by Clinton's adoption of a snazzy constellation of space-based sensors and ground-based missiles that would stand guard over all 50 states, poised to destroy a handful of incoming missiles. In time-tested Star Wars practice, the President is expected to decide in June 2000 whether to deploy the system, even though tests on key components--such as the missile interceptor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Wars: The Sequel | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

Same with speeding. It helps rein us in if, on our way to work, we see flashing lights where other cars have been pulled over and the drivers have been hauled out and thrown to the ground and flogged and their right foot, the accelerator foot, has been cut off by a policeman with an ax. This is the Republican position on impeachment as I understand it. And I agree that watching miscreant drivers hopping around with blood dripping from their stumps would make me slow down, no doubt about it. It certainly seems to work in Singapore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans Were Right, But-- | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...inscribed tablet and a round window above it, and a little arbor to the right. Except that in the second version the arbor isn't an arbor but a shed; and the slice of street seen through the archway is different; and the pattern of paving on the ground is different too. It's like a child's puzzle: "What's wrong with the second picture?" Which bit of Delft is invented? The first or the second or (just as likely) both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pieter de Hooch: Visionary Homebody | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

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