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...ladders. Complicating matters, modern hip-hop has a rich history of allusions, invented mythologies, and shorthands. These can be sort of boring, e.g. the aforementioned EPMD (stands for Eric and Parrish Making Dollars). But others are both esoteric and extensively catalogued, in such an attractive way that learning every Nation of Islam-related acronym, every Black Panther name-checked in a Dead Prez song, and every slang term for cocaine seems like not only an executable idea, but a good idea. My love of hip-hop, for better or for worse, became the best class in the world.Of these...
...Both Scott Bloch and Rep. James Oberstar, the Minnesota Democrat who chairs the House Transportation Committee, are highly critical of the way the FAA has been overseeing the nation's airlines. Asked Monday night if the nation's air travelers have endured the worst in the latest round of groundings, Oberstar snapped: "We'll be through the worst of it when they take their customer service initiative directive and tear it up, shred it, and establish a new mind-set that is aviation safety-compliant. What they're doing now is going through the mechanics of what they should have...
...Supreme Court reopened the nation's execution chambers on Wednesday, rejecting a claim by Kentucky inmates - echoed by prisoners across the country - that lethal injection as it is widely practiced is cruel and unusual punishment...
Despite France's jealously protective stance toward the nation's artistic reputation, contemporary French art has been streaming out of the country and into the hands of foreign buyers at an alarming rate in recent years. The government of President Nicolas Sarkozy was already on the case - even before nude photos of First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy were auctioned in London last week to a Chinese investor for $91,000. France's Culture Ministry has announced measures aimed at reversing the general lack of interest among the French in buying art - a deficiency some fear is slowly bleeding an enormous...
...Should Albanel's plan succeed in creating a new generation of French collectors eager to keep France's modern art works at home,in some cases literally,the nation just may snatch its third place spot back from China. And if they can do that, perhaps French officials can come up with an equally efficient policy for getting the foreign-owned photos of their under-dressed First Lady back under domestic wraps...