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...genre," he says. "I want everybody to get my music." So far, everyone has. His first two albums sold 15 million copies, and in many ways he has become the hip-hop Shania Twain (another ex-- McDonald's employee who grew up poor and writes songs designed to ring registers in every genre). But whereas Twain takes pop songs and countrifies them or vice versa, Nelly is an integrationist. His exuberant rolling delivery--he has never met a hard consonant--naturally places him between the commercial lodes of hard-core rap and sugary pop, while his lyrics invite everybody into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rapper Who Likes Bowling | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

Debunking Harvard in most places internationally is also likely to ring hollow. While students at the Sorbonne might cackle with glee as you relate to them the evils of Physics 11a sections, students at Qatar University won’t even believe you; and students from Beirut University might angrily demand that you try a couple classes in his shoes. Not to mention that any non-college educated person in any foreign country will immediately affirm their conception of Americans as spoiled if you pine away about your tough life on the banks of the Charles. Or at least that...

Author: By Alex Slack, ALEX SLACK | Title: Abroad and From Harvard | 9/23/2004 | See Source »

Pring-Wilson, a former student in the Russian and Slavic Studies Department, is facing life in prison for allegedly stabbing Michael D. Colono during a fight outside Pizza Ring on Western Ave. in April...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pring-Wilson Trial: Jury Hears 911 Tape | 9/23/2004 | See Source »

...sides presented differing accounts of the early-morning stabbing outside of Pizza Ring on Western Ave., with the prosecution calling it murder and the defense calling it self-defense...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts and Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pring-Wilson Trial Begins | 9/21/2004 | See Source »

...very long because other advisers believe Kerry must get away from the Iraq tar baby once and for all. All that suggests a deeper problem in the campaign: Kerryland appears to be arranged not for speed but for consultation. The Kerry campaign at times resembles a floating five-ring circus of longtime Democratic operatives who have all sorts of views, allegiances and ambitions. That worked fine when it was up against Howard Dean's homespun Vermont militia. Against Bush-Cheney '04, a disciplined hierarchy run by Karl Rove and manned by fervent Bush loyalists who take no prisoners, it could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: Coolness Under Fire | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

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