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...awful gangsta group Hot Boys (like 'N Sync with shivs), Wayne went solo and undertook a transformation almost unprecedented in hip-hop. Over four years, he morphed from a mediocre rapper with a thuggish point of view into a savant who merges sex, drugs and politics with a sneaky intellect, a freakish knowledge of pop culture and a voice out of the Delta. Whether Wayne is, as he claims, the "best rapper alive" is no longer even debated in hip-hop or commercial circles. Since June 10, when his latest album, Tha Carter III, sold 1,005,545 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lil Wayne: The Best Rapper Alive | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

...aside from being one of the earliest stories to hinge on the evidence of fingerprints--stood as a challenge to the racial convictions of even many of the liberals of his day. Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior to whites, especially in intellect, Twain's tale revolved in part around two babies switched at birth. A slave gave birth to her master's baby and, concerned lest the child be sold South, switched him in the crib for the master's baby by his wife. The slave's light-skinned child was taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Past Black and White | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

...them to house its early-warning radar network along the Arctic Circle. Bucky, as he was known to everybody, was an authentic American visionary, the kind who could seem at first glance--and not just at first glance--like a bit of a crackpot, something between a panoramic intellect and one of those "outsider" artists who manically fill in every free space of their drawings. There were too many ideas in his teeming brain, most of them system-wide and cosmic in scale. He was unconfined by the real-world considerations that keep you and me from envisioning massive spherical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buckminster Fuller: The Big Thinker | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

...More than just a convenient foil for Republicans, Rice is extremely smart and cunning. She will not say something to the press that will get McCain in trouble. She will probably win her debates by means of her cold intellect. The Democrats may not be able to find a vice presidential candidate who can match Rice in her time-tested conservative foreign policy expertise. With her deep public policy background as a National Security Advisor to President Bush and then Secretary of State, Rice has the credentials to lead the country at anytime should the need arise...

Author: By George Hayward | Title: Condoleezza Rice for VP? | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...Colleagues attribute Stone’s success at Harvard to his inclusiveness of all opinions and to his “wonderful” intellect...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss and Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Portrait: Alan J. Stone | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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