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...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 stream of plays (on which his films are based) that tour the country, playing to African-American audiences on a modern-day version of the "chitlin' circuit," the segregation-era venues for black theater and vaudeville...
What is the endgame here? Greece has big debts relative to the size of its $357 billion economy (about 120% of GDP). It no longer has the option of eating into those debts by inflating its currency. In fact, it has no power to use monetary policy to ease its pain, as the Federal Reserve has been doing in a big way in the U.S. The only options for Greece are to 1) scrimp and save to convince creditors that it can keep paying them off, 2) convince its fellow euro-zone countries--or maybe the International Monetary Fund...
Limiting the size of the players, with enforced regular weigh-ins, would reduce the severity of serious injuries. It works in boxing and wrestling. Why not in football...
...Cagnes, friends, family and servants were his models, dressed and undressed. That's the second of his three sons in the life-size portrait Jean as a Huntsman, striking an aristocratic pose borrowed from Velázquez. At age 16, he looks as if he knows he'll grow up to be one of the greatest of all filmmakers, the director of classics like The Grand Illusion and Rules of the Game. During the run of this show, LACMA has scheduled a Jean Renoir film festival. You can schedule one at home to decide for yourself who was the greater...
Reducing the size of the real estate portfolio also improves liquidity, but such sales involve risks as well...