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...everyone in attendance shared Terry’s views. Tricia Rose, a professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, said that hip hop has lost its political potential due to its commercialization. “The ghetto has become a product; something to be consumed, something to be worn,” she said, adding that hip hop has become an enterprise that exploits its environment. Rose also said that hip hop—while it is not the cause of homophobia and misogyny—aids in the distribution of these attitudes. But Dash said that hip hop culture...
...Islamic delegation. But what was most striking was the overall sense of subdued despair after all the battles and outrages of the Bush years. "The past few years, the Muslims were throwing tables at us," a U.S. Middle East policy expert told me. "Maybe they're just worn...
...lost the Super Bowl may be why the celebration was being held in this small Nicaraguan village - because Boston's loss was definitely Diriamba's gain, in the form of the "Perfect Season, 19-0" Patriots T-shirts and hats that Brady, Belichick and Bruschi were supposed to have worn on the field after the game. Due to NFL regulations that prohibit the sale of the losing team's "championship" apparel, the T-shirts and hats were donated to needy Nicaraguans by World Vision, in conjunction with the NFL and Reebok...
...Although most of the shirts had been made for six-foot-four, 310-pound tackles, rather than three-foot-eight, 45-pound elementary schoolers, no one complained about the tailoring. That's because unlike most of clothing worn in this part of the world, the Patriots gear was brand-new - a wonderful novelty, even if everyone in the village now has the same shirt...
...Methodist much in the same way that Al Gore's campaign dispatched Joseph Lieberman to engage religious voters in 2000. Edwards carried with him a leather-bound copy of The Purpose-Driven Life, a popular devotional book by the Evangelical author and megachurch pastor Rick Warren. Edwards' copy was worn from daily reading, a discipline he shared with tens of millions of other Americans who owned the book...