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...lyrics are smart but not self-consciously cerebral. These are songs that hit a little harder than the typical Top 40 tune: the clever 'I Hung My Head,' with its commanding horns and elevating keyboard work, tells the story of an accidental shooting, and could also be read as plea for gun control; 'I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying' is a countryish tune that clomps along like John Wayne's horse but is also a well-observed look at a divorced man dealing with the fact that he has lost custody of his kids...
COOLIO Gangsta's Paradise wins rap award with antiviolence plea, repeated in hip acceptance...
Szekeres is required by law to attend the arraignment, where she will be formally charged with one count of larceny over $250 by single scheme and will officially enter a plea. By law, the case will go to court with-in 100 days of the arraignment...
...Womack later changed his plea on that count and admitted to slashing the books...
What else can be made of Farrakhan's sucking up to Muammar Gaddafi, who, the official Libyan news agency reports, pledged that Libya will give the Nation of Islam a cool billion to expand its role in electoral politics? (The money has yet to be delivered.) Or his plea to Nigerian human-rights advocates to give strongman General Sani Abacha three more years to fulfill his long-delayed promise to return the country to civilian rule? Moses, Farrakhan explained to the Nigerians, was also a dictator, and there are times when "stern discipline" is needed--presumably including the detention without...