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...claims to divine status, India's maharajas knew they were just paid-up domestic help for the British, as one anecdote tellingly reveals: when he took the British viceroy of India out on tiger hunts, the maharaja of Gwalior measured the animals shot by his guest "with a special tape that had eleven inches to a foot," so that the Englishman would never suffer the ignominy of having bagged the smaller tiger...
...Bam’s infrastructure was leveled, the relief team had to cope with very limited resources. The team performed surgeries with bottled water and built shelves out of cardboard boxes held by duct tape...
...crew instructed passengers to keep their phones off and their passports in hand. Anyone who needed to go to the bathroom was escorted by a crew member, who waited at the door. Men in dark jackets milled around outside, and the plane was roped off with yellow police tape. Finally, after an hour and a half, the 247 passengers were shepherded in small groups onto the floodlit tarmac and into mobile lounges. Officials checked their passports and bags, questioning a few passengers more intensely than others, and five hours after landing, Duell met his wife. She had been waiting...
...which a young Eminem clumsily raps, "Black girls are dumb, and white girls are good chicks." This should be a major coup for the magazine--a world-famous white rapper uttering a racist phrase--yet somehow it isn't. Eminem has already issued an apology, explaining that the tape is 10 years old and he made it just after breaking up with an African-American girlfriend. "I reacted like the angry, stupid kid I was," he said. Almost all the hip-hop community has accepted Eminem's contrition as sincere, and outrage has boomeranged on the questionable journalistic judgment...
...real costs. Interscope Records--home of Eminem, 50 Cent and Dr. Dre--has pulled its ads from the magazine, and Mays concedes that the past year has been "very tough financially." But The Source's long-term problem is not money but credibility. Unearthing the Eminem "black girls" tape required journalistic initiative, and Eminem's rise has had real consequences for hip-hop. "This is a huge story," says Mays. But David Mays is probably the wrong man to tell...