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...Friday night and LMF's 11 band members overflow the stage: three electric guitars, one DJ hovering over two turntables, two standing bongos, one full drum set and four cordless microphones gripped by four dragon-eyed meanies. This is the hardcore, hard-bitten hip-hop engendered by the Wu-Tang Clan, the Beastie Boys and Rage Against the Machine. The set ends and the drunk is at it again. "Why stop playing?" he slurs. "You so lazy!" The crowd splits, giving him a wide berth. Three band members -- faces red, neck muscles straining, shirts coming off -- rush the barriers. This...
...thought to have taken refuge somewhere in Southeast Asia. The voyage was also a chance for the young dynasty to show the world the power and capability of the Ming ruler. This was a China on the rise, a nation striving to return to the glory of the high Tang dynasty, when Chinese troops occupied territory as far away as today's Iran. Zheng He supervised the building of the fleet of "treasure ships," which assembled before embarking at the port of Liujia in Taicang, a coastal town 40 km from Shanghai...
...cover writing from scary places, by Junger, a man with an appetite for the ragged edge of life and ability to write abut it with restrained power. The ten pieces in this collection of magazine articles, one of which won a National Magazine Award for Reporting, have the authentic tang of dispatches from the front...Deeply affecting stories of a ruthless world, natural and man-made, that will leave you stunned and distraught." Only the lengthy lead article, "Fire," has never been published before...
Still, because I've been living with my girlfriend Cassandra for some time, everyone was on my case about getting married. When I was interviewing the Wu-Tang Clan, even Inspectah Deck and Cappadonna, who were emptying out a Dutch Masters cigar and refilling it with marijuana, starting laying into me. "You got to marry her," Cappadonna told me. "You got to step up and be a man. Take some responsibility." Deck nodded in agreement. I never needed a puff of a Dutch Master quite so much...
...Still, because I've been living with my girlfriend Cassandra for some time, everyone was on my case about getting married. When I was interviewing the Wu-Tang Clan, even Inspectah Deck and Cappadonna, who were emptying out a Dutch Masters cigar and refilling it with marijuana, starting laying into me. "You got to marry her," Cappadonna told me. "You got to step up and be a man. Take some responsibility." Deck nodded in agreement. I never needed a puff of a Dutch Master quite so much...