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...comical rhymes, dance-ready beats, pugnacious boasts, and a sense of social conscience over the course of the record’s 14 tracks. But it seems this diversity simply muddles whatever message there may have been. Does Ludacris want people who “still ride the MARTA train” to hate him? Does he want his unique lyrical powers to be respected, as he and Weezy claim in “Last of a Dying Breed?” Or is the most important message Spike Lee’s: that everyone’s been...
...would always say that I wasn’t the most strategic choice. There’s this joke at Stuy that you have to choose an Asian running mate,” says Marta Bralic ’12, who was vice president to another candidate that year. She is not Asian...
...There was a lot of give-and-take," says Marta Lowe, who took Obama's Current Issues in Racism and the Law class during the spring of 1995. "There was no pontificating from on high about what we should think. It was us organically coming up with kernels of wisdom." Obama in academe proved to be more charismatic than academic. Evaluations by students reviewed by TIME gave him consistently high ratings. For a winter 2003 course called Voting Rights and the Democratic Process, for example, he received a 6.07 out of a possible 7 for "overall evaluation of teaching performance...
...Spain be so progressive in its treatment of one animal species, and so ... traditional in its treatment of another? In part, the answer lies with the Project's own rationale for singling out great apes. "They are animals with highly developed intelligence and emotional capacity," says Marta Tafalla, a law professor who specializes in animal rights at Barcelona's Autonomous University. "They have curiosity, they feel affection and jealousy, they lie, and they suffer horribly when they are deprived of their freedom." The same argument is harder to make when it comes to bulls...
...original idea came from HBO's successful drama Oz, which focuses on a U.S. high security prison. The writers also based some of the story on real-life events and characters, drawing most of the inspiration from Mexico City's infamous Santa Marta women's prison. The result is a series that is as grim, bloody and chaotic as actual Latin American prisons; it is world where children live with their mothers behind bars until they are six, where corruption is rife and where killings are commonplace. But aside from portraying the misery of prison life, the producers also aimed...