Word: successful
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...with a particular faith. We don't really have a culture that anyone can identify with because America is a mixture taken from everyone else's [roots]. My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years...
What's the New York hip-hop scene like and how much do you credit it for your success? New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters. It had a few slump years, but the scene is starting to reemerge. Brooklyn is where I primarily developed. I had an opportunity to make records and perform in clubs here and there, and I started networking with the right people in the right places. My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky...
...nuclear weapons and is falling into chaos--is becoming the Obama Administration's biggest foreign policy challenge. Richard Holbrooke, Obama's special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, told Congress that the Pakistani President "should be treated as the leader of a country who vitally needs our support and whose success is vitally related to American interests...
Jack's final service--his last play, to offer a football metaphor, which he loved to do--was to demonstrate what Reaganism (and, to be fair, Kempism, because Jack was critical to President Reagan's success) was really about: conservatism with a smile, conservatism of multiplication not division, optimism about the future, the best of the old applied to the new. Above all, conservatism appropriately constructed as befit the party of Lincoln...
...between protests, Alexeyev works with human-rights lawyers to defend gay rights within Russia's bureaucratic court system. Last week a lesbian couple in Moscow was refused the right to get married; Alexeyev plans to take the case to court. He has had some success with legislation. Last year his activism helped change a law that barred gays and lesbians from donating blood. Alexeyev speaks regularly to gay groups outside Moscow to promote his message of equal rights. "Moscow and St. Petersburg is one thing," he says. "There are clubs and communities [in the big cities,] but being...