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Puff Daddy may have been far too eager to let the world know that—when he wasn’t implicating himself in gun shoot-outs or dating Jennifer Lopez—he was at an altar with a rather corpulent black man on the cross. But regardless of Combs’ personal stake in his exploitation of Biggie’s death, it was an exploitation that produced positive consequences. The East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry and its participants suddenly came into the national spotlight, out of the manipulative hands of hip-hop rags that...
...social injustice that may have led to the loss. But the circumstances of Aaliyah’s death, unlike those of Biggie or Kurt Cobain, can hardly be regarded as a teachable moment. The singer was aboard a Cessna passenger plane in the course of a Bahamas music video shoot, when the plane crashed into the ocean, killing all of its passengers. No grand social force appears to have contributed to the death of Aaliyah, and the only potential message to be taken home from this event is a fear of flying...
...October, the small Kentucky town of West Point hosted 12,000 visitors at the annual Knob Creek Gun Range Machine Gun Shoot. The competition, which is the nation’s largest, includes both a machine gun shoot-off and a separate competition for flame-throwers...
...Sydney Harbor. In advance of our meeting, Crowe's publicist announced that her client had a surprise for me: he had rented a tall ship--like the one he captains in his new movie, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World--for the sake of a photo shoot and our introductory chat. It seemed a bit obvious--ship movie, ship interview--and I wondered if it wasn't a clumsy gesture designed to focus the conversation on knots and fathoms rather than more interesting matters like bar brawls and love affairs. But soon there were other surprises...
...took some stupid penalties and then we lost our momentum,” Mazzoleni said after that game. “You shoot yourself in the foot when you go in the box. You shoot both feet off when you go two men down...