Word: nas
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...years later, the 20-year-old Jones, who goes by the name Nas, is breaking through as a rapper. His debut album, Illmatic, captures the ailing community he was raised in -- the random gunplay, the whir of police helicopters, the homeboys hanging out on the corner sipping bottles of Hennessy. Despite the harsh subject matter, most of the songs are leisurely paced, with amiable melodies. One track uses part of Michael Jackson's Human Nature as its basic tune. Nas' rapping is dispassionate -- like an anchorman relaying the day's grim news -- but his lyrics sometimes reveal submerged emotion...
...Nas isn't a gangsta rapper. He doesn't mean to glorify the rough world he comes from, merely to render it. "I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death," he raps. The shootings two years ago showed Nas that in a violent world you have to stay alert and aware; Illmatic is his wake-up call to his listeners...
Suleiman said Mansfield's comments reminded herof the National Association of Scholars (NAS), aright-wing organization that warns againstpolitical correctness in American universities...
...angry, too, when I hear peopleassociated with the NAS getting up and accusingHarvard of being politically correct," Suleimansaid. NAS, she said, is known to receive fundingfrom right-wing foundations with politicalagendas...
According to the NAS study, the government's old-fashioned accounting methods failed to keep tabs on such sophisticated multinational activity as "intracompany" sales, exports to a corporation's own foreign affiliates. These exports, which account for more than a quarter of all U.S. trade activity, simply fell through the cracks. On the other side of the ledger, however, the government's accountants were diligent indeed in totting up tariff-producing imports. "In terms of international competitiveness," says economist Robert Baldwin, chairman of the panel, the study suggests that "we are not doing as badly as the trade figures indicate...