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...Gist: Since he swaggered into America's living rooms nearly a decade ago, Eminem has been a fixture not only of the hip-hop world but of popular culture: the tortured white rapper of prodigious talent who can't quite come to grips with his fame. His dizzying rise made him the subject and star of the movie 8 Mile and the target of critics, who assailed him for spouting bigoted, misogynistic lyrics. All along, Eminem has griped that neither fans nor foes really understood him. In The Way I Am, a recently released "self-portrait" unmediated by movie avatars...
...Even after word of his talent began to spread, his road to success was plagued with potholes. He split with one manager over a Burger King Whopper - Eminem couldn't afford one and figured any manager unwilling to shell out for a client's lunch wasn't serious about the rapper's prospects. And while the opening scene in 8 Mile - in which his character suffers stage fright during a rap battle - may have been cinematically embellished, he "choked" in the finals of a 1997 battle in Ohio, returning to Detroit "depressed and totally broke...
Jones has a way with a slogan and a talent for cutting to the core of an argument that some environmentalists (Al Gore, for instance) don't always possess. But while Jones has become the face of the new green-collar economy, he's hardly the only environmentalist pushing the idea. The concept is gaining steam because when it comes to climate change, simply protecting the environment is not enough. The only way the environmental movement can grow beyond a relatively small elite is if it meets broad, basic economic needs, not just green ones. "We need to go from...
...captain in Rebecca—I think she’ll be the standard by which all other captains will be compared.”Words like experience and know-how get thrown around frequently in the world of sports. Each team has its own standout senior, with enough talent, acclaim, medals, and awards to go around.But in lightweight rowing, Kharrazi is truly a step above. She joined Radcliffe as a freshman, inexperienced in the world of collegiate rowing. She left her first year stroking the varsity eight—an unprecedented feat in the lightweight program.In the academic arena...
...Bayley said.Growing up a two-sport athlete in baseball and basketball, Schreck had never been exposed to rowing until he transferred from his public high school to an all-boys prep school outside of Philadelphia. Adding crew to his repertoire sophomore year, Schreck quickly developed a love and talent for the sport, becoming captain of both the basketball and crew teams by his senior year.For Schreck, choosing where to spend the next four years of his life was not particularly difficult. Cambridge’s culture and the campus atmosphere were high selling points, and, of course, there...