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Hip-Hop Happens

Hip-hop, hibbit to the hibbit to the hip-hip-hop and you dont stop The moment this strange incantation bubbled up through urban airwaves in October 1979, the genie was out of the bottle. This…
LENGTH: 36 minutes (9005 words)

Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.

Op-Ed Contributor A COUPLE of weeks ago, I replaced my three-year-old BlackBerry Pearl with a much more powerful BlackBerry Bold. Needless to say, I was impressed with…
PUBLISHED: May 28, 2011
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2077 words)

The Comic Stylings of Brian Williams

Told of Seth Meyers's admiration for his comic instrument, the anchor replies, “That’s odd, because we’ve never belonged to a health club together, and we’re both in successful long-term relationships.” It’s a classic Williams line: suggestive enough to shock—did Brian Williams just tell a penis joke?—yet veiled enough that it doesn’t seem untoward coming from the man my grandmother trusts to keep her up-to-date on rising health-care costs.
PUBLISHED: April 27, 2011
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3695 words)
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