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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Jenkins, Representative Lynn • uninsured mother demanding an affordable public option is laughed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

There's a lot of pageantry on display at derbies, too. Veteran demolition driver Lynn Buchanan paid $600 for his mid-'70s Chevy wagon, which he decorated with an American-flag motif for the Delaware County derby. He puts a lot of hours into fixing up the clunkers he's getting ready to crash and sees the derby as a healthy way to blow off steam in stressful times. "I tell my wife, at least I'm not at the bar or doing drugs," he says. "You know where I am - in the garage turning a wrench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crash For Clunkers: Demolition Derbies Hard Up for Cars | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

Over the years there's been a surge in girl drummers - killer drummers who are really entertaining. The first one I was really associated with was Terri Lynn Carrington, I knew her when she was a little girl. (Read: "The Best Jazz Club in Beijing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creating Kind of Blue | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

...since James Baldwin has a black gay writer achieved the success of E. Lynn Harris. While exploring the boundaries and taboos of sexuality, Harris--who died on July 23 at 54--turned the black community and the literary world upside down, with 10 consecutive New York Times best sellers and more than 4 million copies of his work in print. Unlike Baldwin, Harris wrote for the masses, introducing readers to a fabulous world teeming with prosperous but morally conflicted black characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E. Lynn Harris | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

Born Everette Lynn Harris in Flint, Mich., he quit his job at IBM in his mid-30s and sold his first novel, Invisible Life, out of the trunk of his car to beauty salons and bookstores. A source of inspiration for black gay men, his once forbidden stories about their relationships caught on with female fans: for years, it was virtually impossible to ride the subway in New York City, Washington or Atlanta without coming across a black woman reading one of his novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E. Lynn Harris | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

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