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...Eastern Europe--that were distant hip-hop outposts a few years ago. Dre's distributor, Interscope Records, receives 4,000 requests a year from labels in such places as India, Turkey, Southeast Asia and Israel that want to add Dre tracks to international hip-hop compilations. Beyond his mere reach, Dre has also brought depth. Pepe Mogt, a composer who founded Tijuana's hip Nortec Collective of DJs, says, "What he did with his music was very influential for us because he created music that described the place of his origin [Compton, Calif.], which is something...
...image. Terrorism is sometimes described (in a frustrated, oh-the-burdens-of-great-power tone of voice) as "asymmetrical warfare." So what? Most of history is a pageant of asymmetries. It is mostly the asymmetries that cause history to happen--an obscure Schickelgruber nearly destroys Europe; a mere atom, artfully diddled, incinerates a city. Elegant perplexity puts too much emphasis on the "asymmetrical" side of the phrase and not enough on the fact that it is, indeed, real warfare. Asymmetry is a concept. War is, as we see, blood and death...
Heavier Than Heaven provides a fascinating, honest account of a man whose life has often been shrouded by awe and urban myth. Although at times Cross fails to see Cobain as a mere mortal, lauding the inner meaning and brilliance of lyrics, childhood doodles and teenage graffiti that are not extraordinary in any way, Cross separates himself from other Nirvana biographers in that he is unafraid to prove that despite his obvious musical talent, Cobain was a self-interested hypocrite who was drastically different from how he was portrayed by other journalists and from how he wished to present himself...
...standing together at the Capitol, sang “God Bless America” in unison. And feel it we must, for it is this truth that the terrorists who blew apart the Manhattan skyline and gouged a scar in the Pentagon seek to destroy. They did not attack mere buildings. They did not attack individual people. They attacked, deliberately, the greatest force for freedom, democracy and prosperity that the world has ever seen...
...Simply inconceivable." Dr. Cronenberg had the radio on, as was usual, but it offered news, not Muzak. As Caroline sat patiently through her checkup, assistants kept giving the doctor updates on news from southern Manhattan. "Pace has been let out," one said finally. Pace University was mere blocks from ground zero, and Dr. Cronenberg's son, Jeff, was a student there. So the doctor was monitoring this carefully...