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...Billboard rap charts. Busta Rhymes calls her "unquestionably the best female MC." He's almost right. Lauryn Hill is still the best. But on Dirty Harriet, Rah Digga proves herself to be the best to come along since Hill. Rah's voice is rough and low; at times she sounds like a man. Her beats are strong too: her songs hit the listener like middleweight champs. Her lyrics can be playful or boastful or political (she appeared on Hip-Hop for Respect, a four-song CD put out in response to the Amadou Diallo shooting). Rah uses her sexuality...
Hang on to your portfolios, folks. The breakdown Saturday of antitrust negotiations between federal officials and Microsoft turned Monday into a rough day for MSFT. The stock has been swinging wildly over the past few weeks, rising on rumors of a settlement, diving when talks appeared stalled. And now those talks are dead. What went wrong? It's hard to tell. Some accounts say that Microsoft balked at the DOJ's demand that it unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows, while other sources insist that Gates & Co. were perfectly willing to do so. And quite a few fingers (especially ones based...
...raising taxes once elected). But working the big bogus vein has a way of paying off in American politics. If 1988 was a gridiron, the Democrat, poor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, was playing high school football. Bush was doing it the way they do it in the NFL - rough stuff and the killer instinct...
What's certainly missing is the service's piece de resistance, the bullet train modeled on France's futuristic TGV (train a grande vitesse). Now scheduled to launch in July, the Amtrak bullet has been delayed as builders attempt to adapt European tilting technology to America's rough freight tracks. Meanwhile, Amtrak is introducing other improvements to its Northeastern service under the Acela logo--primarily a reduction of the Boston-New York trip from five hours to just under four, using newly electrified tracks. The bullet train, a.k.a. the Acela Express, will reach speeds of up to 150 m.p.h., cutting...
...ride did have its share of bumps, literally. During rough spells, I was unable to type without the cursor bouncing across my laptop screen. Back in the dining car, where a line snaked into the next coach compartment, riders grabbed whatever they could to keep beverage and person upright...