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...Cent is everywhere.He’s on billboards, magazine covers, CDs, radio programs, television talk shows, and now he can be seen on the silver screen in “Get Rich Or Die Tryin’,” which is loosely based on his life story.That story is the stuff of legends. 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, grew up without a father in the drug-plagued New York neighborhood of South Jamaica, Queens. He started selling crack at the age of 12 after his mother—a dealer herself—was murdered...
...major obstacle: not many people follow Ivy League sports.“That makes it a little bit more difficult obviously,” Humm said. “But once people find out about him—I know with USA Today he was on the radar screen for a while. It was just a matter of the right time.”It doesn’t hurt Humm, Sullivan, and others pushing cases like Hartigan’s that the Ivy League is largely viewed as one of the last bastions of truly amateur athletics and actual...
...America’s Intellectual Powerhouse’ on the screen, and everybody says Harvard. Everybody,” says Hesel, a principal of the Art & Science Group, a consulting firm that specializes in marketing for higher education. “We put up ‘Free-Choice Curriculum,’ and most people guess Brown...
...When she joined the talks, Israel was insisting that its own security personnel continue to screen the gateways, particularly the currently closed Rafah crossing linking Gaza to Egypt. The Israelis wanted to post surveillance cameras at the crossing to screen for suspicious individuals, weapons and even large sums of cash that could finance terror cells. But the Palestinians balked, arguing that this amounted to occupation by proxy...
...surveillance camera video feeds and computer data streams at the crossing. Also, the Palestinians wanted to have final authority. The Palestinians also complained the harvest couldn't wait for the months it would take to comply with Israeli demands that they install state-of-the-art scanners to screen trucks. So Wolfensohn threatened to walk, leaving the two sides, as he recounted over the weekend, to "blow each other...