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Thanks in part to Nike's promotions, urban hip-hop culture is all the rage among young Chinese. One of Beijing's leading DJs, Gu Yu, credits Nike with "making me the person I am." Handsome and tall under a mop of shoulder-length hair, Gu got hooked on hip-hop after hearing rapper Black Rob rhyme praises to Nike in a television ad. Gu learned more on Nike's Internet page and persuaded overseas friends to send him music. Now they send something else too: limited-edition Nikes unavailable in China. Gu and his partner sell them in their...
...hipsters and ne’er-do-wells. The Happy Mondays, who got their name from a term for the tranquil E come-down the day after a rave, had popularized the scene the year before with their top-40 hit EP Madchester Rave On, but their next full-length Pills ’n’ Thrills and Bellyaches, my pick for all-time greatest drug album, blew it open as Britain seemed to slowly turn into one non-stop party. Though soon the party ended—frontman Shaun Rider’s heroin problems finally caused their...
From there, Ellroy decided to exorcise the memory of his mother, and expanded what was originally to be a magazine article into a full-length crime memoir. “The dramatist in me knew that I could write a book that would describe the arc of my relationship with my mother very well,” he said...
...turn itself is pretty tricky. Swinging too wide or going too far to starboard (toward the right-hand side) increases the length of the course, costing precious seconds. Collisions are common here, as they are at Weeks, as two or more boats often try to squeeze through the center arch at the same time...
...winning every race but one by open water during the regular season. In the semifinals at Henley, the Crimson handily beat a talented Cambridge crew before falling in the finals of the Grand Challenge Cup to the Dutch national team—by just two-thirds of a boat length...