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It's a question I've never really considered, but pondering it now, I find the answer unsettling: It wouldn't be all that different.
The cover story marvels at the "Wild Bunch" of egotistical celebrities (including Warren Beatty and Donald Trump) who are pondering third-party runs for the presidency.
"They were pondering the ideal distance from Pat Buchanan a person should be when that person spits on him."
) And while it's pleasant to think of 2Pac sitting around, pondering whether to stay or depart this world--"To pack or not to pack, that is the question"--the best evidence against the faked-death theory is the album itself, credited to Makaveli and cumbersomely entitled The Don Killuminati/The 7 Day Theory . It indicates, frankly, that Pac/Mak didn't have that much imagination.
But it does hit a nerve, so Mintz spends his last chapter pondering the question of whether America has a cuisine after all.