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...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 or record company censorship, he sets the record straight...
...stretch. The New York Yankees have also reported strong luxury-box sales for their new stadium. On Oct. 19, the first day of a public auction for personal-seat licenses that give you a right to buy season-ticket packages for future games, the Jets exceeded their benchmark target of $25,000 for the premier seats in their new stadium, according to CNBC. (Though prices have dropped since then.) Overall, baseball's 2008 revenues rose to $6.5 billion, from $6 billion last season, and NHL season-ticket sales are up almost...
...face it, though, High School Musical 3 was not made for you. The good folks at Disney could give two figs for what you think of it. (Collecting his two figs after the jump is TIME's film critic Richard Corliss, with his review.) But what about the target audience? How did it play to them? We asked two kids, Zoe Descoteaux, 8, and Ginger Edmiston, 7, of New York City to talk about the movie afterward. Here, with some prompting from mom, are their thoughts...
...giant of legal education,” whose recent faculty expansion has forced its competitors to reconsider their hiring strategies. With a $1.85 billion endowment bolstered by a recent capital campaign that brought in over $450 million, the Law School’s war chest has enabled it to target tenured professors at schools like Columbia, Chicago, and the University of Virginia. To replace the faculty that departed, these law schools must also ramp up their efforts to poach professors...
...stung from rejection, and the other was ashamed by a newfound respect for the target. After wallowing in mutual failure, we realized we might have been asking the wrong questions all along. Examining ADPhi and Fugitive Poetics as two members of the same literary scene prevented us from seeing that the real answer lay in investigating their differences...