Word: proofing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...gangsta mentality is so dangerous because when rappers think of themselves as mobsters instead of artists, they reach for their guns instead of their pens to settle disputes. Although it may seem funny, it is really just tragic that rappers feel the need to wear bullet-proof vests in public. But the greater tragedy is that, after what happened to Pac, rappers and their associates are still dying violent deaths...
...April, Proof, from the group D12, was shot and killed during an altercation at a Detroit nightclub. Two months earlier, a security guard for Busta Rhymes was gunned down outside of a recording studio in New York. That murder, like the murders of Pac and Biggie, remain unsolved. Witnesses have refused to step forward with information because the street code forbids “snitching,” or talking to police...
...This key Curia post had been held by another Italian power player, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe. Replacing Sepe with Indian Cardinal Ivan Dias, archbishop of Bombay, was proof that the Pope isn't afraid to take on the Vatican status quo. It also was an acknowledgment that the man responsible for overseeing more than a thousand dioceses in the developing world might best be chosen from the developing world...
...politics," says Régine Lemoine-Darthois, co-author of a recent book about women of Royal's generation titled An Age Called Desire. "She holds up a mirror to French women that they find very agreeable: to knock men dead while being a woman of power. She's proof that you don't have to abandon your femininity to make it." No kidding. At a meeting in Paris earlier this year, a man told Royal she looked good. "You're not too bad yourself," she retorted. Her arsenal includes the occasional girlish giggle, a disarming smile and a sartorial...
...political careers end in failure." Tony Blair is the latest proof of this well-worn aphorism by the right-wing MP Enoch Powell. Blair came to power in 1997 buoyed by a huge parliamentary majority and even bigger expectations of what New Labour could accomplish. He led his party to two more general election victories, the last only 15 months ago. Yet today he's on the ropes, forced by an overwhelming tide of opinion in his party and the country to say when he'll leave Downing Street - or face the humiliation of being forced out. In a public...