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But Kitt's persevering through a life that began hard and was never less than challenging - her ability to thrive in good times and survive all the other times - demanded the strength and resilience of a creature sturdier than a house cat. A tiger, perhaps. When she died on Dec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eartha Kitt, 1927-2008: The Original Material Girl | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

In her Christmas jingle, Kitt's voice has both the sexual authority that might reduce a plutocrat to Jell-O and the little-girl smile that let her listeners in on the fun. "Santa baby, just slip a sable under the tree / For me. / Been an awful good girl, Santa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eartha Kitt, 1927-2008: The Original Material Girl | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

The statement, and its setting, cued an uproar, and for several years Kitt got no work in the U.S. Instead she toured the world, including South Africa, where her appearances under the apartheid regime stoked resentment from American blacks and their supporters. (In the late '70s she was welcomed back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eartha Kitt, 1927-2008: The Original Material Girl | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

Today, Cerberus is backing out of those arrangements, ceding some control of its Detroit institutions in return for rich infusions of government aid. The first infusion came on December 19th when President Bush announced that Chrysler, along with GM, would receive $13.4 billion of emergency loans from the Troubled Asset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Uncle Sam Gave Detroit For Christmas | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

The news that President Bush's war on terrorism soon will have cost the U.S. taxpayers $1 trillion - and counting - is unlikely to spread much Christmas cheer in these tough economic times. A trio of recent reports - none by the Bush Administration - suggests that sometime early in the Obama presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The $1 Trillion Bill for Bush's War on Terror | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

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