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...Thriller, which would become the world's all-time best-selling album. Maturing as a songwriter, he turned a celebrity's denial of paternity into the whispery, groovy "Billie Jean" and a flee-don't-fight message into the unbeatable "Beat It." The videos for these songs broke an informal color barrier at MTV and made music videos a format that quickly spread around the globe. The 14-minute superproduction for Thriller was later chosen by MTV as the top video ever. (Read "How to Moonwalk Like Michael...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Michael Jackson's Legacy | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

...news broke of the event, it had been canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media Morass: The Great Washington Post Unvite | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

...favorite menu choice is the "Tacobellini" - a pair of Burrito Supremes sliced to resemble tortellini - though he's not that crazy about fast food to begin with. In fact, one New Year's resolution was to stop eating it entirely except for road trips, but "this thing kind of broke that rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fancy Fast Food | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

...brief five-second period during his statement, as he offered them a direct apology. Victims later said this brief gesture meant nothing to them. Outside the courthouse hundreds of people, including many victims and the news media, waited to hear the sentence. When news came just before midday, applause broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Penalty for 'Extraordinary Evil': Madoff Gets 150 Years | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

...Barack Obama found himself spiritually isolated upon entering the Oval Office. He famously broke ties last year with Jeremiah Wright, his former pastor, and resigned his membership at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. So, just as he followed Bush's lead in choosing Evergreen as a church home, the President is taking a page from Clinton's playbook on this front: Obama has a small group of pastors he contacts for prayer and spiritual support (including two men who played the same role at times for Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obamas Find a Church Home — Away from Home | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

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