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...hard. By the spring of 2004, Chalabi's home was raided by U.S. forces. His associates were suspected of fraud, torture, kidnapping and misuse of U.S. funds. Chalabi was suspected of spying for the Iranians. But nothing much came of that. Chalabi soon leveraged American disapproval into Baghdad street cred and a burgeoning career as a leader of the Shi'ite coalition. He currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister in Ibrahim al-Jaafari's government. And now-trumpet clarion here-he is coming back to Washington in November at the invitation of Treasury Secretary John Snow. But Chalabi will have...
...than doubled in size since last year, when there were just 2,500 volunteers. Today the spotters, ages 17 to 70, send information from more than 70 countries. They do it partly for the small rewards, like key-ring cameras, that they can earn but mostly for the street cred that comes with ID-ing a trend that appears in Evers' bible of cool...
...Square standby everyone knows about, that four-stage indie palace curiously named after a geographic region. Next time, though, turn the corner past the Middle East and visit its gritty next-door cousin: t.t. the Bear’s Place. t.t.’s has as much street cred as any place in Boston—according to legend, Nirvana played there for a crowd of 14—and you’re less likely to run into that obnoxious future i-banker from your Justice section. At t.t.’s you can party with...
...main purpose seems to be to remind us that even though her reputation is in question, she still has that strange commodity known as “street cred.” The video is pretty terrible. When you see a Li’l Kim video, you usually want to see some mammary glands and some groin-pulling. Some suggestive winking, at the very least...
GOTTLIEB: Not by changing my dialect. And I don't wear baggy pants. Street cred is about loyalty and results. The key to success is reinventing yourself and [being] open to new possibilities...