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...Village Voice said his music conjures “images of pussy-whipped young men,” while Rolling Stone called it “overeducated nerd rap.” But that didn’t prevent Slug from recording “When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold,” another articulate album about feminism, sex, and working-class people. Slug, who along with producer Ant makes up hip-hop duo Atmosphere, is probably the only songwriter in contemporary hip-hop who writes about a woman who is “gonna...
...measures] do prevent us from hiring new people,” he said. “They are preventing us from being creative in terms of our searches and our hiring...
...hundreds of students from attending. The event, held last Thursday night at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge, was a success. The Red Party, a Seneca tradition started nine years ago, was previously held in the Roxy, a Boston club, before a 2007 Boston law restricted entry into nightclubs to prevent underage drinking. According to Emma Moretzsohn ’09, the president of The Seneca, the group chose to keep the event open to everyone in the spirit of social inclusion, rather than make it a 21+ event. The high attendance of the party testifies to the fact that...
...Obama has written that he supports the death penalty for some crimes that are "so heinous" and "so beyond the pale." But in Illinois he worked to put in place more safeguards to prevent wrongful convictions, including a law that required police to tape interrogations and confessions. The Obama campaign did not offer any immediate comment on Brown's ad. (Update: The Obama campaign later responded to the ad, saying "Floyd Brown and the garbage he puts on TV represent everything the American people hate about politics..." Read the full Obama statement here.) John McCain supports continued...
...history of cases in which severe writhing and convulsions have taken place following the injection. Currently Kentucky, one of the 36 states that still use the death penalty, employs a cocktail of three different drugs, one of which is pancuronium bromide, a paralytic drug that is intended to prevent convulsions when the lethal chemical is inserted intravenously to the victim. Because the drug induces a paralysis, the executioners cannot determine if the inmate is undergoing any sort of pain. He is rendered unable to move, let alone scream—potentially silencing the most cruel of state actions. Given...