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Biggie, who was discovered by Sean Combs (then Puff Daddy), flaunted the gangsta-rapper M.O. of drug-dealing, motor-mouthing and subsidiary violence. The movie Biggie (Jamal Woolard) is portrayed sympathetically - sometimes cunning, ruthless and weak, but a gifted, generous man who's surrounded by strong women: his girlfriend-rappers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mall Cop and Other Disreputable Pleasures | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

It's true that the discoveries of Picasso and Pollock don't much ruffle the grave surfaces of Wyeth's work. For much of his career he painted not only in watercolors but in tempera, a pigment and egg-white medium that predates oil paint. His only art school was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Andrew Wyeth's Problematic Legacy | 1/17/2009 | See Source »

In his concluding chapter, Darwin noted that a pastor who ran a school for the blind told him that "those born blind" and "those gifted with eyesight" display facial expressions equally well. But somehow it took more than 130 years for someone to test this hypothesis scientifically. Matsumoto has finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Lift Your Mood? Try Smiling | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

Spending Where it Counts Re Inbox Dec. 22: Sol Kerzner, along with other South African hoteliers, donated a large sum to kick-start the fund 
 for a new hotel school at the University of Johannesburg. Without this the school probably would not exist today. After the tragic death of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honoring Obama | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

None of this should make stockholder fell better. Chaos and the difficulty of making predictions in chaotic time has even the most gifted traders, the hedge funds and institutions, by the throat and it throttling the life out of investors. In a market in which nothing is certain or nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chaos Theory Takes Hold Of Corporate Earnings | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

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