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Cuttting fellow MCs is a longstanding rap tradition, but the murders of rap stars Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. pretty much shut down the diss-record business.
The shallow analysis: The case was open and shut, since Kevorkian taped the incident (in which he administered a lethal injection to a terminally ill man, with the man's consent) and had the tape aired on 60 Minutes . The sophisticated analysis: Kevorkian tried to make the trial a political debate over assisted suicide, but the judge and jury refused to go along.
One of the guests, by legend Lady Katherine Douglas, thrust her arm through the staples where the bar should have been, and temporarily kept the door shut.
Rich casts New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani--who has threatened to shut down the exhibit of work by a group of young British artists because he thinks it's full of anti-Catholic, "sick stuff"--as a schoolyard tough who likes to pick on scrawny opponents.
The twin fire-doors wheezed shut behind two girls.His face deepened to a face I've cometo think of, on other faces, as ancient, accepting.