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...huge crowd pleaser, these two ladies faced off as the last match of the first half. Lots of head blows noted...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble | Title: Boxers Beat Up On Each Other | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

This week's tea parties afforded the governor an opportunity to tap into the Texas spirit of independence, a surefire crowd-pleaser in the reddest of red states, one with a profound sense of its own identity, independent history and anti-Washington sentiment. "Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression," Perry told roaring tea-party crowds in Austin and Fort Worth, quoting Sam Houston, Texas' founding father. (See pictures of a post-Dubya Crawford, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's All That Secession Ruckus in Texas? | 4/18/2009 | See Source »

Although Lil Wayne’s “Lollipop” is certainly a crowd pleaser, it may not capture hip-hop’s original spirit of activism, according to the Harvard’s Hiphop Archive founder and Executive Director, Marcyliena Morgan. “You get [radio stations saying] ‘let’s play these songs about someone’s butt,’” said Morgan, a professor of African and African American Studies. To exchange ideas and promote dialogue surrounding issues of global hip-hop, the Hiphop Archive...

Author: By Kristen L. Cronon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hip Hop Hooray: The HipHop Archive Gets Talking | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...early as November, the Hawai'i Visitors and Convention Bureau unveiled a micro site at www.gohawaii.com/Obama, that tracks the President-elect's Hawaii, including everything from his Honolulu birthplace to the exclusive Punahou School where he studied to the place where he ate shave ice, a local palate pleaser, during his previous vacation in August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Tries to Escape in Hawaii | 12/24/2008 | See Source »

...Obama. But he had to pick a cultural conservative like Palin because he couldn't risk alienating an already demoralized base. If Palin was viewed as the most likely right winger to sell in the swing states, Scully is the right pick to help repackage her from a base pleaser into a bridge builder. (See photos of Sarah Palin here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Behind Palin's Speech | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

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