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...debut album that Christopher—better known as The Notorious B.I.G.—recorded in 1994, entitled “Ready to Die.” The LP awakened East Coast rap from a protracted hibernation and established one of the genre’s most vital lyricists. Yet “Notorious,” the glossy new biopic of Biggie Smalls, paints Wallace’s transformation into a man in only the broadest, brightest strokes. For a movie trying to revive interest in one of rap’s most storied and complicated figures?...
...main supply line into Afghanistan and highlighting its vulnerability. Of course, Bakiyev happened to be standing alongside Russian President Dmitri Medvedev at a Moscow news conference when he served notice on the U.S. to vacate the Manas air base. Moscow, in fact, had just promised to give Bakiyev a vital $2 billion economic bailout package. Russia's motivations, and its intentions, are ambiguous. (See pictures of NATO's vulnerable Pakistani supply route...
...Entropa” is funny because many of its stereotypes have some element of truth to them. The EU is not as unified as it ideally aspires to be, and of course each of its member countries has flaws. Criticism and humorous mocking by artists can be vital and necessary to help effect change...
...year-old head nurse, Masoumeh Bozorgnejad, points to what's called a vital horoscope--a record of all births, deaths, diseases, contraceptive methods and infant- and mother-mortality rates of the 3,335 people this station covers. "I know every single one of them by name," says Bozorgnejad with a proud smile and adds, "If a mother doesn't show up with her newborn for a scheduled vaccination, we ring her up. And if she can't come for whatever reason, we go pick the baby up ourselves...
...Compact Summers' immediate task is to convince skeptical Senators that shelling out nearly $1 trillion over two years isn't another exercise in traditional pork-barrel spending but a vital step needed to save jobs and invest in the future. Some Republicans call the current plan wasteful; free-spending Democrats long for more investments over years, not months. Summers argues that the stimulus bill splits the difference: not only will most of the money go to reviving the economy in the next 18 months, but much of it will also go to projects that could save money over the long...