Word: listens
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...shoot-to-kill policy," says former Deputy Mayor of London Jenny Jones, a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority's complaints committee. "At the very least, people have a right to know exactly what it is." Menezes' family lashed out at police. "For three weeks, we have had to listen to lie after lie about Jean and how he was killed," Menezes' cousin Alessandro Pereira said at a press conference in London, during which he also demanded that Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair resign. "We never believed the English police," Menezes' 17-year-old cousin Leide told Time by phone...
...fact is that white music made me understand how black I really was. I realized that I was connected by experience and history, connected in a way that didn't require recitations of Big Daddy Kane. But more freeing was the simple sense of disconnection--the ability to listen to White Music the way white kids must have listened to jazz, soul or hip-hop. I had no personal stake in the Arcade Fire. I did not have to debate the effects of Foo Fighters on young black youth. For the first time ever, I was just listening to music...
...enters 50’s life early on. When his aunts and uncles threw parties at 50’s grandmother’s house, he would watch from his window and marvel at how the beat took control of his relatives as they danced. He recalls how listening to the Notorious B.I.G.’s classic album “Ready to Die” while pushing crack had a calming effect: “When I was hustling, I would listen to that tape and it would be like Big was sitting right next...
...camera-docking printers, it's an innovation designed not for early adopters but for late adopters. The stereo comes with a tiny 128MB MP3 player that connects at the top. Pop in a CD (or five), press Record and the songs load themselves onto the portable player as you listen to them...
Christian entrepreneurs feel confident that their time has come. "In these days the Lord is trying to wake up people, and I think he's raising more people that are Christians in businesses," says Griffin. "He's given Christians favor because they do listen to him." Philip DeLizio, a real estate broker in Glen Burnie, Md., felt the time was right to join a network of Christian real estate agents: "Ever since 9/11, I think America as a whole has become maybe a little more religious or spiritual. I'm not going to say that was the reason we went...