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...like a brawny pirate. He has two silver rings in one ear and dark eyebrows arched like two hissing cats. He picks up his cell phone and jokingly plays the part of a low-life genie: "A Russian hooker who looks like Pamela Anderson? Ecstasy? A bottle of Black Label? An AK-47, or a 40-carat diamond? It's all here?just a phone call away." In his sleek, black outfits and his silver bracelets, Amin is a familiar figure at Karachi's private parties and rave clubs, which never advertise or display signs and are set back from...
...scouting records for sound systems, talent-spotting (Toots and the Maytals were a prize catch) and writing lyrics for others. Soon, at the mixing desk, he was helping make Studio One the island's hottest hit factory. In 1968, keen to make his own mark, Perry established the Upsetter label, and one evening heard the drum beat he wanted emanating from a Pocomania Church - a Revivalist Christian sect with West African roots. The resulting single, People Funny, Boy, "shook up the entire Jamaican music scene and gave birth to the form known as reggae," says David Katz, Lee Perry...
While Schreiber dismisses the label “big science”—he said he “cringed” when MIT President Charles M. Vest used the word—he agrees that there is a divide among those interested in “bigger science” and those...
...Anyone who wants to consider me a homophobe should also label me a ‘heterophobe,’” Pappin said, explaining his opposition to all sexual license...
...difficult. Sure, the Massachusetts native, who grew up sailing and skiing, is a true outdoorsman. “I absolutely love the feeling when you lose control just a little too much and keep on going faster and faster,” he says. But surprisingly, he rejects the label of thrill-seeker: “Never do anything that falls on the wild [side],” he declares. And roommate Daniel R. Fish ’03 corroborates that Noonan doesn’t keep the most exciting of schedules: “[You’ll] find...