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...campaign is being driven by both patriotism and economics. Base realignments will bring 20,000 new soldiers (on top of the almost 50,000 already stationed) by 2011, and the military's economic impact in the area will go from $5 billion to $6.5 billion in the process, says Breeden Blackwell, the county commission chairman. "You can see why we take care of our investment," he says...
...speak-singing in a tender falsetto before the guitars kick in and he sandblasts away at the melody. What Rose has to say - "A twist of fate, the change of heart kills my infatuation" etc. - is a bland list of romantic gripes that fail to diminish the song's impact one bit because it's how Rose sings that matters. Repeating the word better in the bridge, he spits the b's and drags his vocal cords across the r's until, out of meaninglessness, his meaning is unmistakable. Whether the anger is authentic is impossible to know...
...there was talk of a "Huxtable effect"--the idea that pop-cultural portrayals of African Americans from The Cosby Show to 24's David Palmer readied white America for a black President. But maybe there's an opposite factor at work here too--the 50 Cent effect. The impact of the Obamas comes partly from the unspoken contrast to a decades-old media archive of images of black people as problems or threats, from news to cop shows to hip-hop. Broken families, perp walks, AKs and Cristal...
...thought about the points we discussed.” Khan’s written work, which focuses primarily on sex culture and sex workers, includes a dissertation on how nonlegal domains come to bear on the legal regulation of sadomasochism. Her current research considers the social and cultural impact of “Janes” (sex workers) and “Johns” (clients) on the stigmatization of the sex work field, particularly taking into consideration the influence of the film industry...
...Anyone on the team will tell you he’s had a monumental impact on us,” Ajayi says. “Especially when you consider that we spend so much more time lifting weights and training in a not football specific...