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Three Bad Boy releases--Notorious B.I.G.'s Life After Death, Mase's Harlem World and Combs' debut, No Way Out--each sold more than 3 million albums. I'll Be Missing You, Combs' 1997 elegy to B.I.G., who died in a drive-by shooting, outsold every other single that year except Elton John's tribute to Princess Diana, Candle in the Wind. "Puffy is one of the main reasons for hip-hop's mass appeal," admits Ruffhouse Records boss Chris Schwartz, a Bad Boy rival. "He's made the music more accessible...
...multimedia treasures is the most fun. Brief movies on historic sites in Africa tell of the medieval trading city Timbuktu (in what is now Mali) and the underground churches hewn from volcanic rock in Ethiopia's 12th century Christian empire Lalibela. Choice video clips, such as those of the Harlem Globetrotters' comic basketball team and singer Bessie Smith, reveal what words could only suggest...
...practices from our own society; to introduce youngsters to crucial bodies of knowledge and to the ways in which scholars have approached them--the "mental habits" of the historian, the mathematician, the scientist. We hope as well that teachers will serve as role models. As the longtime East Harlem school principal Deborah Meier, now in Boston, has declared with respect to teachers and students, "We need to be their Joe DiMaggios...
Harshbarger recalled his earliest days as a volunteer when he discussed working in an East Harlem church on a Rockefeller Public Service Fellowship after graduation nearly 35 years ago. He said he was inspired by the efforts of the residents of the decaying urban community--residents who, according to Harshbarger, "refused to be beaten down...
...Howard Hughes to fail to make the Builders and Titans list is like Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls losing out to the Harlem Globetrotters. The Bulls are the best in the world at what they do, as was Hughes, and the Globetrotters are the best at playing crazy, as was Hughes. CURTIS J. PHILLIPS Fort McMurray, Alta...