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Whoomp! (There It Was)

“How do you spell ‘whoomp’?”Steve Rolln was on the line with his man DC the Brain Supreme. DC had been talking to three strippers—Cinnamon, Chocolate, and…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4585 words)

Supreme Deciders

Today is the second day of oral arguments before the Supreme Court about the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s health-care-reform law. Over at Daily Comment,…
PUBLISHED: March 27, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (250 words)

When Eddie met Haile

©Sarah ElliottHaile Gebrselassie and Eddie Izzard run on the old stone benches of Meskel Square, Addis AbabaI’m at the Sheraton in Addis Ababa, and the reason I’m here is to do some…
SOURCE:www.ft.com
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2065 words)
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The Song Machine

On a mild Monday afternoon in mid-January, Ester Dean, a songwriter and vocalist, arrived at Roc the Mic Studios, on West Twenty-seventh Street in Manhattan, for the first of five days of…
PUBLISHED: March 26, 2012
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6604 words)

Lex Luger Can Write a Hit Rap Song in the Time It Takes to Read This

A few years ago, before anyone knew his name, before rap artists from all over the country started hitting him up for music, the rap producer Lex Luger, born Lexus…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 4, 2011
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3425 words)
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