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...still behind the fist clenched around his mic. In between songs, he executes flying leaps, coming dangerously close to connecting with the Middle East’s low ceiling. At one point, during a small dance routine, he even does the splits and comes up grinning at fellow Living Legend Scarub, who accompanies Murs set. Sacrub remains unimpressed. In accordance with the Def Jux community spirit, Scarub gets to strut his own stuff several times, particularly after Murs does a string of “Girl raps” including a song dedicated to “All the girls...
...time at Harvard. He has a loving wife and five successful children. Then of course, there’s that small matter of his two best-selling and critically acclaimed novels, and his achievements as a veteran Hollywood screenwriter—with screen credits including Alex & Emma, The Legend of Bagger Vance, and Don Juan DeMarco, which he also directed. His new movie, The Notebook, opens in theatres everywhere on June...
...Japanese legend, Kaguya was a beautiful princess who came from the moon and was born inside a bamboo stalk. Today, at the Tokyo University of Agriculture, Kaguya's namesake is a 14-month-old mouse whose conception is every bit as fantastic: she was created by scientists using two eggs and no sperm. As reported in the journal Nature last week, that makes Kaguya the first mouse born by parthenogenesis (from the Greek for virgin birth), a reproductive method seen in insects and reptiles but never before in mammals...
...opened up a store selling oranges and other citrus fruit. Legend has it that she needed a dress with a colorful pattern that would obscure the juice that got on her clothing (an occupational hazard if I’ve ever heard of one). Rising to the challenge, Pulitzer sewed herself a handful of dresses in bright colors that were new, cute and popular, and requests for them quickly began pouring in from all over Palm Beach. Once Jackie Kennedy, a friend and classmate of Lilly’s at Chapin girls’ school in New York, wore...
...Rock legend Stephen Stills amused and shocked a group of about 30 students assembled in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room, as he spoke about the ties between politcs, youth activism and rock ‘n’ roll...