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...putting your grievances down on paper, he wrote exorcising letters to himself and turned them into his first play, I Know I've Been Changed. He settled in Atlanta, which is still his base of operations. Soon he was a one-man off-Broadway, penning and often starring in nine original plays in nine years: I Can Do Bad All by Myself (2000), Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2001), Madea's Family Reunion (2002), Madea's Class Reunion (2003), Meet the Browns (2004), Why Did I Get Married? (2004), Madea Goes to Jail (2005), What's Done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God and Tyler Perry vs. Hollywood | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...consistently praised by colleagues for his "sweetness." That quality, along with his gift for the edgy, sweeping story, helped Minghella make powerful, critically acclaimed films, including The Talented Mr. Ripley, which earned him an Oscar nomination for writing; Cold Mountain; and 1996's The English Patient, which won nine Academy Awards, among them Best Director for Minghella. The filmmaker, who had just finished shooting The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Botswana, died suddenly of a hemorrhage following surgery for a cancerous growth on his neck. Minghella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...obviously know who you are.’ But he was the nicest guy.” Getting into better shape was the primary offseason goal for Haviland. As the certified ace of the Crimson’s rotation, he was entrusted as a junior with pitching the second, nine-inning game of a doubleheader as opposed to the first, seven-inning game. Early on last season, Haviland would find himself tiring after his usual seven innings—and would sometimes find himself in trouble or in the dugout for the eighth and ninth.The senior recalls a game...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Last Hand for Harvard's Ace | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...every three of them Chinese). On the main streets alone, by one Western scholar's count, there are 238 dance halls and karaoke parlors and 658 brothels, and the Potala Palace-for centuries a symbol of a culture whose people were ruled by a monk and home to nine Dalai Lamas-is now mockingly surrounded by an amusement park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Monk's Struggle | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...quite a bit longer than that. Ed Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz, co-authors of the books Calendrical Calculations and Calendrical Tabulations, determined how often in the period between 1600 and 2400 A.D. Good Friday, Purim, Narouz and the Eid would occur in the same week. The answer is nine times in 800 years. Then they tackled the odds that they would converge on a two-day period. And the total is ... only once: tomorrow. And that's not even counting Magha Puja and Small Holi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Friday! Happy Purim, Eid, etc... | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

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