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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Baltimore. I wanted Omar to look, sound and feel like someone who was born and raised in Baltimore - not a New York kid trying to portray that. So I had to learn the Baltimore dialects so the writing could sound authentic. They'd write things like "Do tell?" and "How do?" We don't talk like that in Brooklyn. I thought, What does that mean? "Do tell?" That's not gangster. But in Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actor Michael Kenneth Williams | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

...tell you, it wasn’t easy to get information out of my three aunts,” New said, laughing. “They mostly liked to talk about hors d’ovueres and how that girl looked...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Elisa New Discusses Her Memoir, Family History | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

...awful travel gripe? The Avenger may be able to sort it out for you. Click here to tell us your problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airline Bag Fees: As High as the Cost of a Seat? | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

...this speech really still happening? Flores is telling the girl to stop. She speeds up. More incoherence. Help! We think her point is to tell the UC not to certify the election...

Author: By Wendy H. Chang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Live Blog: The UC Election Fiasco | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...freshman UC rep decides he wants to tell a story about how he used to be a hypochondriac who always went to UHS, thinking he was sick even when he had no symptoms. The point of this revelation? We're all being metaphoric hypochondriacs about this UC stuff and should just chill...

Author: By Wendy H. Chang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Live Blog: The UC Election Fiasco | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

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