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...from their recontextualization of African-American art forms. Trailblazers in many respects, Public Enemy first drew rap attention to the racism and greed of Hollywood back in 1990 with their song “Burn, Hollywood, Burn,” featuring N.W.A.’s Ice Cube and old-school legend Big Daddy Kane. In the song, a sampled white voice asks rapper Flavor Flav how he feels about playing “a controversial Negro,” a “servant who shuffles and sings.” He refuses indignantly, and accepts instead Ice Cube?...
...kids are ditching drinks and snubbing soirees, opting instead just to “rage.” Or go to a rage, host a big rager, be a big rager, or spend the night raging. Cocktail hour now screams country club, pre-gaming echoes back to the Yard, old-school partying is passé. So in the world of semantics and spirits, it’s no wonder that raging’s the rage. I first heard the word “rager” from groups of men (generous description of these boys) planning a party...
...they're branching out. Beyond posting exhaustive pieces about bias in Fox News coverage and uploading videos of presidential wannabe George Allen making a fool of himself, they're adopting the old-school tools of electoral politics, like canvassing their neighborhoods and calling their member of Congress. They're getting nitty-gritty in their focus too. The liberal online fund-raising group ActBlue, for instance, is trying to get activists to donate serious money to state-legislature campaigns that bloggers once considered too unsexy to care about. The goal is to put Democrats in control of state governments, where many...
PROVIDENCE—Old-school power football was on display as the Crimson (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) used a physical rushing attack to pound the Brown Bears (1-1, 0-1 Ivy) into submission 38-21 before 8,456 fans at Brown Stadium on Saturday.But instead of the ancient “three yards and a cloud of dust” offense, senior running back Clifton Dawson turned his 181 yards at a 7.2 yard per carry clip, including 104 yards and two touchdowns in the first quarter.Harvard ran the ball 44 times...
PROVIDENCE—Old-school power football was on display as the Crimson (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) used a physical rushing attack to pound the Brown Bears (1-1, 0-1 Ivy) into submission 38-21 before 8,456 fans at Brown Stadium on Saturday.But instead of the ancient “three yards and a cloud of dust” offense, senior running back Clifton Dawson turned his 181 yards at a 7.2 yard per carry clip, including 104 yards and two touchdowns in the first quarter.Harvard ran the ball 44 times...