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...your inspiration for Madea--Flip Wilson's Geraldine, Mrs. Doubtfire or Sanford and Son's Aunt Esther? She's based on all of those people, plus Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence characters. If I hadn't seen a man put on a dress, I wouldn't have had the courage to do it. The inspiration comes from my mother and my aunt. Madea is the PG version of them...
...Soulful Last Words TIME's verbatim column quoted the note left by Martin Toler Jr., one of the coal miners who died after being trapped by an explosion in a West Virginia mine [Jan. 16]. Toler wrote: "It wasn't bad/ just went to sleep." I was so moved when I read those words that I immediately went online to find the rest of the message Toler left to comfort his family and friends. He had also scrawled, "Tell all I love them, I'll see them on the other side." At the moment when death was taking everything from...
...eulogy with furtive references to the Bush administration and what he believed to be its failings. Particularly pointed was his critique of the administration’s policy of wiretapping suspected terrorists without government sanction, which he likened to the FBI’s wiretapping and general harassment of Martin Luther King...
...Crimson within a game of having to abandon its current “best chance” and look to the future. Which brings us to this very weekend. A single loss could spell the end of Ivy title dreams for seniors Matt Stehle, Michael Beal and Zach Martin. A sweep would put Harvard right back in the race. “During week four and week five things start to shake out a little more,” Sullivan said. “And things become a little more dramatic.” It’s fitting that...
...season was first released, Harvard featured three goalies on the list.This past weekend, in a pair of key mid-season ECAC contests, the Crimson had to rely on Brittany Martin—its freshman recruit from Torrance, Cal.—to be its lone netminder. Luckily for Harvard, Martin stepped up to the challenge and saved 76 shots to earn ties against Brown and Yale.And she played all 130 minutes with no other goaltender dressed to play on the bench, knowing she would be the last line of defense for the Crimson. “She kept her composure...