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...Denzel Washington didn't get a meaty leading-man romantic role until Spike Lee wrote one for him for his movie "Mo' Better Blues." Lee provided Washington with another plum role when he cast him as the lead in "Malcolm X." Another one of Washington's best roles came in "Mississippi Masala," a movie directed by an Indian director, Mira Nair. "Training Day" was directed by a black filmmaker, Antoine Fuqua...
...launched at Barnes & Noble in 2000 and become one of the chain's Top 10 sellers this year. Next up from Faby is National Trash!, a game in which players use sensationalistic words to create tabloid headlines to go with wacky photos. So when it's revealed that Professor Plum did it with the revolver in the study, a new generation of tabloid writers will be ready...
...founded Plum Village, a practice center and monastery in southwest France. He resides there when he is not on tour...
...Jiang has more at stake in the succession than ensuring his chosen mandarins get the plum posts. He also needs to protect his allies, including family members, from charges of corruption. Revealing the dirt on a leader's underlings is a time-honored means of attack in China. Jiang himself signaled his independence from patriarch Deng Xiaoping in 1995 by ousting Beijing party head Chen Xitong, whom Deng had installed, on corruption charges. Then, two years ago, Jiang quelled a corruption investigation when it threatened to implicate his own Beijing party chief. Neither Jiang nor his family members have been...
Very well. Ms. Toi has no problem with booty per se, and though the dubious plum Russian fur hat and similarly purple vinyl attire she sports on the cover of her album bespeaks bling, she has more to offer. Track after track, she never lets up on the flow—or the venom—though her insistence occasionally gives way to repetition. The best tracks are those in which she forgoes the lackluster, quasi-operatic sampling for the rhymes she does best. Unfortunately, given the as yet unspectacular reception of her November release, the world...