Word: reigns
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...more complicated. Kelly, 38, is currently under indictment in Illinois for 14 counts of child pornography after he allegedly videotaped himself engaging in wildly inappropriate behavior with his 14-year-old goddaughter. You might think the stigma of such charges would have an effect on Kelly's 10-year reign as R&B's most beloved entendrist. You'd be wrong. His new album, TP.3 Reloaded, entered Billboard's album chart at No. 1 last week, selling a robust 491,000 copies and earning mixed, but not outraged, reviews. Other famous people--Bill Clinton, Kobe Bryant--have remained popular while...
...artists have a voice. They "created something that doesn't sound like [it was made by] a guy from New York or somebody from L.A. It's specific to the South," says U.S.C. professor Todd Boyd, author of The New H.N.I.C: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop. "A big part of hip-hop is about representing, and they want to rep their culture." The Sundance hit Hustle & Flow, about a Memphis, Tenn., pimp who wants to be a rapper, will introduce the sound to an even wider audience and ought to boost collaborators like Memphians...
Furthering the social conservatism that marked the reign of John Paul II, Benedict XVI has shown his willingness to use his authority to sway Catholic voters on social issues. At a time when some liberals and moderates in the U.S. fear the growing strength of the evangelical right in American politics, the supremacy of the Pope in Catholic and Italian cultures serves as a noteworthy and comparable example of the power of religion to shape public life...
...took to the streets, shouting "Down with misery!" and "Down with the constitution!"--a reference to the document that gives Duvalier, 34, lifetime tenure as President and the right to choose his successor. The following day students in Gonaïves abandoned classes to demand an end to Duvalier's reign. Army troops shot two students in cold blood and beat a third to death. That inspired students all over Haiti to launch new protests, most of which were violently put down by security forces. On Dec. 15, a Gonaïves school principal was arrested and later died in police custody...
Besides being the climax of the romance of the century, that famous speech marked the beginning of the public reign of Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, the dark, angular, citrus-tongued siren for whom Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David had set aside his crown. She swiftly became the most discussed and written-about woman in the world, fawned over by fashion designers for her "perfect elegance," gushed over by gossip columnists and probed endlessly in tabloid serials, books and, eventually, TV dramatizations. The final chapter of her star-crossed love story--Or was it merely the tale...