Word: playfulness
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...could open the door to a flood of legal cases and more financial turbulence, but will also reassure investors that Dubai is learning from its mistakes. To keep attracting foreign residents with the skills to run a modern economy - and to better educate its own citizens so they can play a bigger role in that economy - the gulf's cities will also have to open up more. Dubai could well lead the way. "Dubai has been proving naysayers wrong for so long that I'm wary of being pessimistic," says Jim Krane, author of City of Gold: Dubai...
...went to Madison Square Garden to see Tyler Perry's new musical, Madea's Big Happy Family, a day after I sat through a Broadway revival of Noel Coward's 1939 play Present Laughter. I noticed a few differences. In Coward's play, the main character, a famous stage actor, spends most of the evening in a dressing gown delivering bons mots to an entourage of fellow theater people. In Perry's show, a sharp-tongued grandmother delivers sassy put-downs and motivational lectures to a brood of squabbling family members. Coward's plot reaches a climax as the actor...
...rated TV series (TBS's House of Payne) and friendship with Oprah Winfrey (with whom he produced the Oscar-nominated film Precious), Perry, 40, may well be the most popular unsung playwright in America. Raised in a poor and abusive home in New Orleans, he staged his first musical play, I Know I've Been Changed, in a former Atlanta church in 1998. Two years later he introduced his most famous character, the wisecracking, God-fearing granny Mabel (Madea) Simmons - played by Perry in a plus-size print dress and silver wig. Since then he's turned out a steady...
...long as people play football, there will be football-related injuries. We should do what we reasonably can to keep players safe, but life is full of risks, and if you live in fear of them or try to mitigate them out of existence, you take the joy out of living--or, in this case, the game...
Senior Pat Magnarelli did not play but said after the game that he would definitely return next weekend at home against Brown and Yale...