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...guidance counselor with a past in Role Models (2008) and Julia Child's sister in a critically acclaimed turn opposite Meryl Streep in last summer's Julie & Julia. All of them, however, were bit parts - characters, as Lynch puts it, with a "function": to advance the plot or help the central characters grow without sticking around long enough to grow themselves. Now, with her role in Glee - which has earned her a Golden Globe nomination and helped clinch an ensemble win for Best TV Series (Comedy or Musical) - Lynch has been nudged firmly into the spotlight, whether she likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best in Show | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

...bails on writing altogether. He moves to a new city, gets a dog and a cat, gets his wife pregnant and generally forgets about books entirely - until he receives a strange fan letter from an elderly, misanthropic taxidermist who's working on a play and wants Henry's help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shock the Monkey | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

Instead, she focused on providing opportunities for Cherokee people to help themselves. To Wilma, Cherokee people were not wards of the U.S. government, in need of assistance from Washington. No, she saw Cherokees as having everything they needed to succeed except opportunity. The success of the Cherokee Nation today is based on the fundamental principles she espoused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wilma Mankiller | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

...Koplik said about her father, who is currently battling cancer. “I don’t think he knows how terrified I am that he won’t meet my children or come to my wedding or be around as I get older and need his help...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Relay For Life Participants Raise $88,000 for Cancer | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

...really looking at it or keeping a close eye on it.” Her statements have suggested that instead, the government should allow considerably fewer forms of secondary employment. This would mean, for example, reconsidering jobs in “deception detection,” in which officers help private firms tell when executives are lying about their companies...

Author: By William V. Bergstrom | Title: Agency Under Fire | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

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