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...what I was going to do.3.FM: What types of classes did you take? WS: There were no courses on puzzles; I had to make them all up myself… For [one] course every couple of weeks I would go into my professor’s office, sit down with him with a new crossword puzzle that I had created and watch as he solved it and critiqued it…My thesis was on the history of American word puzzles before 1860. I am the only person in the world to ever study the subject.4.FM: That is so cool...
...Well, Snoop has an answer. When asked whether his use of the term was comparable to Imus’, Dogg angrily responded, “First of all, we ain’t no old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC going hard on black girls. We are rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them mutha—as say we in the same league as him.” Snoop may be a little rough around the edges...
...recent American history, there have been few conservative causes that required grassroots rallies, sit-ins, or fasting. Conservatives tend not to talk in terms of “revolutions.” In the sixties, while the hyper-liberal Students for Democratic Society were storming the halls of the nation’s universities, their right-wing counterparts were trying to get good old boys like Barry Goldwater elected. The reason for that sort of discrepancy is largely that conservative values tend to be associated with traditionalism, and most forms of conservative reform can occur easily within a governmental framework...
...West Africa in college and for her master’s degree; his father plays the guitar and sings; and a close family friend, whom he calls an uncle, drums.Ogunnaike says it was natural for him to start making music of his own.“I used to sit around and watch my uncle all the time, so I’ve always been banging on stuff, banging on tables, the sink, legs, or even somebody else when I was younger,” he says, drumming his fingers on a bench in Lowell House’s courtyard.Though...
...Even so, prosecutors aren't willing to sit and wait for the highest court in the land to sort it all out. Instead, district attorneys around the state told the legislature that what they really needed were more tools to win cases, not limits on their choices. Working in committee, prosecutors and victims' rights groups managed to include evidence rule changes that would give them more flexibility in presenting child witnesses. The 25-year mandatory-minimum requirement was fine-tuned to apply only to egregious cases such as those involving children under...