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...genre is shot through with mob flick clichés and jargon. Movies like “Scarface” and “New Jack City” left an indelible mark on a generation of rappers struggling to find the vocabulary to describe their own landscape of urban violence; in the introduction to “Welcome to the Terrordome,” Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav actually recites several lines from “Scarface” verbatim. The Wu-Tang Clan, while arguably the most cinematic rap crew ever to rock...
...college seniors applied last spring, including more than 10 percent of Yale’s graduating class. TFA turned more than 80 percent down, making it harder to get into than the University of Pennsylvania. A total of 4,400 corps members are currently teaching in 25 urban and rural areas...
...Urban Elephants
...urban strategy failed. McCaskill lost the general election to Republican Matt Blunt, whose slim victory statewide was fueled by huge majorities in rural counties. McCaskill earned her political stripes as a tough-talking prosecutor in Kansas City before becoming state auditor in 1998. Since losing the governor's race in 2004, McCaskill used her position as auditor to keep her name in the news, launching high-profile investigations into state-regulated nursing homes and cost overruns in St. Louis's MetroLink light rail system...
...papers and working on labs. This tiring slog then makes other restrictions on campus feel all the more burdensome, from no nails in dorm walls to office hours by appointment only.We should be accustomed to this stress and structure by senior year, but it seems several summers of urban independence have only made brick walls and handbooks harder to handle. Freedom can be hard to find. And we’re angry about it. But not willing to complain and much too proud to slow down, we drive forward and fly further, facing one-ways and turbulence the whole ride...