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...Tyson. Missy’s ballads are almost always her weakest points, so these are not huge losses, and Jay-Z’s guest spot on “Wake Up” is discharged with the appropriate skill and brevity. Missy is still possibly the most exciting mainstream hip-hop artist around, even if she can’t quite sustain it over an entire album...
Dash's new business plan fits him like a Roc-A-Fella hoodie. This fall he started Roc Music, the first hip-hop company to produce rock, alternative and R. and B. He's flipping the turntables: over the past decade, pundits have lauded rap for "going mainstream" and finding suburban skater punks far from the smoked-out city neighborhoods where the music was founded. With Roc Music, Damon Dash is formally inviting rock into the hip-hop world. "I've had 20 albums go gold or platinum," he says. "Why can't I have that in rock, soul...
...liberals. I don’t think any of them would want to be associated with anyone who put Bush in the same league as Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden. Zinn might be a leftist or a radical, but his views are fundamentally different from those of mainstream opponents of the war or the subsequent occupation. I supported the war and I consider myself a moderate, but I think you do liberals a disservice by lumping them together with Howard Zinn...
Levine says this surreptitious glimpse into the Lubavitch girl’s thoughts, so much like that of any teenage girl in mainstream America, pierced through the stereotype of the meek Hasidic girl that prevails in many minds. How much of a personality can these girls develop within the confined roles that their religion structures for them? This sort of question—one that Levine herself heard many times from her own professors and colleagues—fuels the stereotype, and Levine says her observation led her to believe it was misconstrued...
...first to focus specifically on the subculture of Hasidic girls. Like the Lubavitchers who believe that all thoughts and acts are worthy of attention due to its ability to bring the Messiah closer, Levine believes that cultures and people who are “different” from the mainstream of American life are worthy of study...