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...This time, I'm saving it for retirement.' EDWARD WILLIAMS, after winning a $900,000 jackpot in the Kansas Super Cash lottery on Aug. 5; last September, the 47-year-old Wichita, Kans., native won $75,000 after buying a $10 scratch ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...raised $42,066 through donations ranging from $10 to $2,000, and the group has planned both an online sale and a concession stand for later in the summer. Bruun has even made overtures to a local man who in May became the winner of the ninth-largest Powerball jackpot ever: $232 million. "I sent him a letter," says Bruun. "It has gone unanswered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a PTA Bake Sale Save a Teacher's Job? | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

...surfer-heist movie. She loves to locate affinities in people with opposite agendas, and vice versa; so James is often isolated from his comrades, while he gets into recklessly close contact with the Iraqis. Bigelow is also a whiz at discovering fresh talent, and in Renner she hit the jackpot. The actor is ordinary-looking, pudgy-faced, quiet; can he carry a big film? Oh, yes. He soon reveals the strength, confidence and unpredictability of a young Russell Crowe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hurt Locker: Iraq, With Thrills | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...entertaining while our Khmer captain steered with his foot and drank an Angkor beer. The first two hours took us south past islands dotted with stilted fishing villages painted in blues and greens and oranges, then through a mangrove forest, into the Gulf of Thailand. There we hit the jackpot: a school of dolphins jumping in the waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Angkor Wat: Cambodia's Hidden Coast | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...rite that is like a Mafia bar mitzvah ("Now you are a man"); a middle-management toughie who, like Tony Soprano, is in the waste-disposal business (the Camorra holds a monopoly in this industry); and two punks who quote the Pacino Scarface and think they've hit the jackpot when they stumble on a weapons stash. ("Let's rack up corpses," one says. "No use feeling depressed.") Above these scarred, drugged-out creatures are their bosses, wealthy mobsters who are still middle management in the giant organization. And to the side, but never out of firing range, nonviolent types...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gomorrah: Scarface for Real | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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