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Isaacson described the talk as “a few poor attempts at clever one-liners, rather than a discussion of diversity...

Author: By Alice E. M. Underwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students and Professors Defend Gender Studies | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...movies (starting with Diary of a Mad Black Woman in 2005), top-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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tyler Perry's Big Happy Family | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...appeal of Idol (just like Idol's, Glee's songs fly to the top of iTunes on a weekly basis). And it's also a critique of the American Idol culture that made it possible. In the words of Rachel (Lea Michele), "Nowadays, being anonymous is worse than being poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality TV at 10: How It's Changed Television — and Us | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...south of Baghdad that had come to be known as the Triangle of Death. Experiencing some form of combat nearly every day, suffering from a high casualty rate and enduring chronic breakdowns in leadership, one of the battalion's platoons - 1st Platoon, Bravo Company - fell into a tailspin of poor discipline, substance abuse and brutality. In March 2006, four 1st Platoon soldiers - Specialist Paul Cortez, Specialist James Barker, Private First Class Jesse Spielman and Private First Class Steven Green - perpetrated one of the most heinous war crimes known to have been committed by U.S. forces during the Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stopping Soldiers from Becoming Murderers | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...thought our team battled, especially in the third period, but we put ourselves behind the eight ball with a poor second period,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91. “They’re a very good team, and you have to be able to put together 60 solid minutes, and we weren’t able...

Author: By Stephanie E. Herwatt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Concedes Season Sweep | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

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