Word: rising
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...Port of Miami” and its sales-driving hit singles, such as “Hustlin’,” “Push It,” and “Blow,” all of which unabashedly illustrate the rapper’s rise from lowly cocaine slinger to “Rick Ross, Boss,” the high profile trafficker with a successful rap career.On “Deeper than Rap,” Ross continues to tell this customary story of the gangster’s American dream, employing his signature overt...
...between the contestants themselves. The real battle is a war against our better judgment, a struggle to convince us that a woman can emote a love ballad without ever having been kissed (as Ms. Boyle has stated of herself) or that a young boy from a broken home can rise to superstardom. In some viewers, the battle has already been won. Both of the contestants have received praise from twittering couple Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher. Rosie O’Donnell has even, I kid you not, posted a 32 line poem on her website inspired by Boyle entitled...
...rise with my red hair, and I eat men like air.” Sylvia Plath’s strong voice projects from a black rectangular machine resting on a table. A dozen people sit in surrounding blue chairs, listening attentively. Some hold anthologies of Sylvia Plath’s poetry and follow along with the poet’s recorded voice. Others merely listen. On Friday afternoons in the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room in Lamont Library, visitors gather to appreciate the recordings of prominent poets as part of REEL TIME, one of the new programs recently installed under...
...interest margin is partly a product of interest rates: banks borrow short term and lend long term, so when long-term interest rates drop below short-term rates (as happened three times in the past 15 years), margins are squeezed. But another big factor has been the rise of nonbank competitors. The barely regulated shadow-banking system of securitization, investment banks and hedge funds took lots of business away from banks. Banks responded by relying more on fee income to pay the bills, getting in on shadow banking themselves and offering easier terms on loans - the latter two with sometimes...
...starts to “care more about where their food comes from.” For example, he mentioned that there are more farms in Massachusetts now than there were five years ago, and these farms are also smaller, both signs that independent, local farmers are on the rise. Davis took many questions from the audience about the best places to buy local produce. He said that New England’s best produce specialties include fiddlehead ferns, wild ramps, apples, cranberries, and nettles. His enthusiasm about food history was evident as he described how Concord, MA used...