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...Check the Rhime" A Tribe Called Quest My all-time favorite - breathtaking rhyming skills, tricky abstract poetics creating mental aerobics for the listener, and a profound musical commentary on the MC as bebop inheritor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Five Best Hip-Hop Songs | 9/22/2000 | See Source »

...rhyming to a new level of profundity, their trickster lyrical gymnastics cutting up and reordering the world, while others, such as Public Enemy, used the format as a platform for social criticism and a revival of the nationalist politics of Malcolm X. De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest were among the leaders of an imaginative school of abstract poetics that stretched the envelope of the hip-hop form and sought to connect it with earlier musical traditions such as bebop, but elsewhere 2 Live Crew were appropriating the frenetic Miami drum-and-bass sound to weave lascivious sexual fantasies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Hip-Hop Nation' Is Exhibit A for America's Latest Cultural Revolution | 9/22/2000 | See Source »

...Unfortunately Ash and company's quest turns out to be a plot by the evil Team Rocket, led by the dastardly Giovanni (Daren Dunstan), who use Pokemon in hopes of taking over the world. Giovanni has built Mecha-Mew2, a mechanical Pokemon capable of learning all Pokemon attack skills and returning them even more powerfully. The only remaining skills to learn are possessed by Pikachu, Ash's favorite Pokemon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Pokemon Live!' Guides Us Into 21st-Century Theater | 9/21/2000 | See Source »

Lehigh (2-0), who actually might be the best team in Pennsylvania this year, defeated Penn 17-10, though Quaker quarterback Gavin Hoffman broke a school record with 36 pass completions and 356 total yards. Though overshadowed by Yale's quest for 800, Penn continues to search for win No. 725. It has a chance to earn that victory next week against Lafayette...

Author: By Alex M. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Football | 9/20/2000 | See Source »

...Jewish community, but his illness renewed his focus on his faith. He attended a weekly Torah-study class and began collecting research on Jewish healing services and intercessionary prayer. He said he wanted to become a resource for others, but clearly he was also on a personal quest to examine the frontiers of his own mortality. Companions joined him on his exploration. His daughter Dara, a theology student at Harvard with plans to become a rabbi, embarked on a chaplaincy internship at a Boston hospital. The confluence of her father's terminal illness and her career choice created opportunities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Stories: In Their Last Days On This Earth | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

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