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...Fifteen Minutes (FM): One of your aliases is “The Chef” because you make flavorful lyrics. So we were wondering, what makes certain lyrics more delicious than others? Raekwon (R): It’s just their topics, just, you know, the added preservatives that I feel the track may need at the time. I could get versatile. I could rhyme about street life stuff, and if I wanna get on grown men and say grown men are sexy and rhyme about another topic and then be about a lady’s career, or a person...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Raekwon of The Wu-Tang Clan | 3/30/2008 | See Source »

...promises of health, educational and even travel benefits - represents their best chance to escape a minimum-wage life. It is a measure of their desperation that they are willing to risk their lives to claim these boons. It is a measure of their dutifulness that they often evoke a certain patriotism to rationalize their choice. There is nothing ignoble about this deal and there is nothing ignoble when they realize that their idealism cannot sustain the sacrifices they are called upon to make. What is ignoble is the failure of the military to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stop-Loss Tells a Painfully Necessary Story | 3/28/2008 | See Source »

...spin and the car to slide out of control. But not with the magic of traction control, which overrides your foot and cuts power. You could hear this happening, by the way - the engine note changed from smooth to bombing-raid violent as the device interrupted detonation in certain cylinders. And according to many experts, it reduced driver skill in the racing equation. The sublimely skilled driver with impeccable throttle control in slippery conditions was brought down to the level of the leadfoot who simply pounded the accelerator and hung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing Their Metal | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...quitting isn't an option. "My family is not big on quitting," Bill Clinton said in West Virginia on March 26. When Clinton closes her eyes, she sees John McCain triumphing in November against Obama in a contest she believes she would win. Like all competitive candidates, Clinton is certain she would be a better leader than her rivals, and she feels an obligation to her supporters to fight on. "The people who are supporting me sure don't want to see it over," she told TIME while campaigning in Pennsylvania on March 25. "They tell me all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still in It To Win It | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...Administration [March 24]. A brain surgeon's wife doesn't become a brain surgeon by watching her husband operate, even if she was the nurse handing him the scalpel. Clinton may have more knowledge than Barack Obama because she has been in the operating room, but I'm not certain I'd want her handling the scalpel. David Wilson, CARSON, CALIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

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