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...fingerprinting play a starring role in the O.J. Simpson murder trial...
...wonder his debut album, Get Rich or Die Trying, out last week, is expected to sell 500,000 copies and enter the Billboard Top 200 at No. 1 in its first five days of release. A decade after Snoop Dogg put out an album while prepping for a murder trial, blending gunplay and wordplay remains rap's most potent marketing strategy. But what makes 50 rap's hottest act (he has two songs in the Top 20) is more than his resume. He happens to be very good, particularly at setting a mood with his rumbling baritone. (Eminem declared...
Born in Queens, N.Y., 50 grew up never knowing his father, while his mother, a drug dealer, was murdered when he was 8. By age 12 he had escaped his grandmother's supervision and was selling crack. "I wrote rhymes too," he says. "I loved music, but I never saw a way to break into it." In 1996 he met neighborhood legend Jam Master Jay, the pioneering DJ from Run-D.M.C. From that point until his shooting death last year, Jay acted as 50's mentor and promoter, with an eye toward a future payday. "He was really patient...
...been reluctant to condemn the denial of personal liberties in Castro’s prison-state. Many activists still cling to the myth of Cuba as a “workers’ paradise,” and thus cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the realities of state-sponsored murder, torture and persecution that have typified life for Cuban dissidents since the revolution in 1959. An unfortunately large group of Western liberals, moreover, seem captivated by stories of literacy programs and socialized medicine. Consequently, they choose to overlook or excuse Castro’s monumental human rights abuses...
...Revolution, which seeks to achieve an era of global Arab domination. Saddam has stated that the goal of Revolution “is ascension, ascension and ascension.” The Baathist ideology issues a call for bloodshed in ever-widening conflict that disregards law and permits the mass murder of racially inferior groups. Only in recent years has Saddam clothed this originally secular ideology in Islamic religious language to convey his vision...