Word: rosing
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Brown University professor Tricia Rose wants you to know that no one is right about hip-hop. In her new book, The Hip Hop Wars, Rose takes on all sides, arguing that fans and detractors alike have advanced illogical, dishonest and offensive arguments about why the genre is bad and why it's great. She spoke to TIME about how radio is killing hip-hop, why artists need to take more responsibility and what the music used to be like...
There's a yawning gap, though, between the recessions of the 1970s and 1980s - when gross domestic product fell 2% to 3% and the unemployment rate rose 4 percentage points - and the conditions of the early 1930s. During the Great Depression, the economy shrank more than 26% over four years. The unemployment rate rose from about 2% to 25%. There are a lot of good reasons - the activism of the Federal Reserve, payments from Social Security and unemployment insurance that act as economic stabilizers, and the incoming Administration's plans for big-time fiscal stimulus - to think that...
Leading by five with a little more than three minutes left in the game, Janning had a chance to put a dagger in the Crimson. He drove through a wide-open lane and rose up to slam it through, but his dunk attempt clanged...
...Last June, University President Drew G. Faust rose in front of Memorial Hall to give her first address at commencement, the University’s most symbolically significant ceremony of the year. The historian chose in this historical moment not to make an abstract address about the location of Harvard and its students in the world, but instead to present a political case for the tax-exempt status of the endowment. It was, all told, an eloquent and well-argued speech, drawing a clever equivalence between the strength of our ledger books and the munificence of our deeds...
...small, bare concrete plaza as the Canadian flag was raised, then lowered to half-staff. Next the Danish flag and finally the NATO flag were raised and left to rest at half-staff. A small group of soldiers from assorted countries stood at attention and saluted as the flags rose and fell. There were no American flags this day, but there soon will...