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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...acted in a bunch of movies and you have some new films coming out. Is this something you want to continue to do? I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I'd like to do more acting. I'm in the negotiation process for two other films. One is with Martin Scorsese. If I can get movie roles to come as consistently as the opportunity to make music, I would definitely embrace every one of those opportunities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rapper Busta Rhymes | 5/19/2009 | See Source »

Joseph Odiambo walks decisively past eight plots of corn and comes to a stop in front of the ninth. Where the other plants towered sugar-cane thick with broad crisp blades, here the plants are skinny and stunted, draped with yellow-tinged leaves. The contrast is deliberate, an advertisement for the wares Odiambo sells from his roadside supply shop in western Kenya. While the shopkeeper's robust plots were planted with commercial seed and carefully nurtured with inorganic fertilizer, his sickly specimens are the result of seeds sown in the bare ground. "We wanted to have a control plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Different Shades of Green in Africa | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...asked for mine up front.' CAROL ANN DUFFY, on the 600 bottles of sherry bestowed on Britain's poet laureate. She is the first woman given that honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...What's happening today behind a front of bodily curves and female beauty is grave.' VERONICA LARIO, wife of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, publicly criticizing her husband for filling his Cabinet with beautiful women and using them as "pieces of costume jewelry" to attract votes. She later announced plans to divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...It’s a very sad day,” said Gordon K. Low, president of the Cambridge stake, as he stood on the lawn in front of the smoldering building. “There are thousands of members of the church in New England whose experiences are here in this building...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mormon Church Goes Up in Flames | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

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