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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...criminal record or need for money; waits for the police to show up; pleads no contest to armed robbery; asks to be sent to the same maximum-security hellhole as his sib; and, the better to look the part, gets a massive tattoo all over his torso. That tattoo might as well read, HELLO, I AM GOING TO BREAK MY WRONGFULLY IMPRISONED BROTHER OUT OF JAIL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Why the Caged Bird Sings | 8/28/2005 | See Source »

...Prince, A Tribe Called Quest and LL Cool J successfully wove suburban perspectives into rebellious music, but when gangsta rap arrived, nuance was smothered by a blanket of extreme poses. Tupac Shakur, once a student at the Baltimore School for the Arts, died with THUG LIFE tattooed across his torso. On The College Dropout, West found a way to bridge the divide without self-destruction. His follow-up, Late Registration, arrives Aug. 30 and continues to mix race and class with beats and melodies. It is widely expected to be the biggest-selling record of the year--1.6 million copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why You Can't Ignore Kanye | 8/21/2005 | See Source »

...about eight dead bodies lying on the ground, and seven or eight other people badly wounded," Chilton said. "One guy had no torso, just legs and chest held together by nothing but skin. There was another girl with her leg gone, and a guy with two legs gone, trying to get up. He didn't realize he had no legs." There was relatively little blood; the explosion was so hot it cauterized most of the wounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Killings in Sharm El Sheikh | 7/23/2005 | See Source »

...revelatory nightmares. The captive Amazon Queen Hippolyta (Lorraine Toussaint), garbed as a soldier and coiffed with a Grace Jones-style Mohawk, stands mute yet defiant as the guards of Duke Theseus (Gary Reineke) surround her. They tear off her uniform and toss it onto a fire, revealing her torso clad in a confining, seductive undergarment: she is being turned from a woman into a girl. Throughout the play, Hippolyta's fury abates but never completely dies. Ciulei, ever attentive to nuances in the text, points up her poignant reminiscence about lost freedom on the very morning of her wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Moonbeams and Menaces | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...legs the size of my torso,” Griffin says. “I didn’t have that shock and awe advantage right off the line, but I trusted that I had whatever genetic advantage it is that...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PLAYER PROFILE: Griffen Schroeder '05, Men's Lightweight Crew | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

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