Word: outlaw
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...says usc coach Tim Floyd. "Should I wait until another school offers and then come in? I can't do that. Because they're going to say 'Well, you're late.'" The ncaa has identified early recruiting as a concern, though there are no rules on the table to outlaw verbal offers to younger kids...
...guess Kinsley fears that literal-minded Jewish leaders would ban pork and Catholics would outlaw birth control. And Muslims? Presumably he thinks they would promote terrorism, of course. Fortunately, the majority of Americans are clever enough to see beyond stereotypes. Great leaders successfully balance morality, democracy and freedom of choice regardless of religious faith. J.P. Wirig, Walnut Creek, California...
...Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Bob Ford (Casey Affleck) is a soulful young punk who wants to join up with Jesse (Brad Pitt) and his outlaw gang, whose exploits have made them notorious throughout the burgeoning West of the 1870s. Bob has read all the dime novels about Jesse and wants to rob his way into infamy. But the gang is breaking down from envy and exhaustion--and from the natural rancor of ornery, armed men. Bob is too late for the party; he's just in time for the funeral...
...sexy guy who whiles away his idle moments drawing sketches in his ever-present notebook. We are drawn more to his insouciant spirit than we are to the earnest, hard-pressed (and well-played) Dan. When the rancher, desperately needing the $200 fee, signs on to escort the captured outlaw through hard country in order to catch the 3:10 to Yuma where a courthouse, a trial and, doubtless, a necktie party await Ben, we know where our moral interest is supposed to lie. But the road agent is a really cute and seductive guy, steadily luring Dan into reluctantly...
...also sold more than 20 million records. Death Row Records, which released much of Shakur's material, was run by ex-con Suge Knight and dogged by rumors of money laundering. But between 1992 and 1998, the label churned out 11 multiplatinum albums. Gangsta rappers reveled in their outlaw mystique, crafting ultra-violent tales of drive-bys and stick-ups designed to shock and enthrall their primary audience--white suburban teenagers. "Hip-hop seemed dangerous; it seemed angry," says Richard Nickels, who manages the hip-hop band the Roots. "Kurt Cobain killed himself, and rock seemed weak. But then...