Word: fame
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...Gentleman" Jim Jeffords, those fleeting 15 minutes of fame had finally arrived. A part-time Civil War buff who just happens to be about the most liberal Republican in the U.S. Senate, Jeffords sat at his peaceful mountaintop farmhouse near Burlington, Vermont, last week taking half- desperate telephone calls from the likes of Vice President Al Gore, Education Secretary Dick Riley, Labor chief Robert Reich and Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala. All were calling to persuade Jeffords to vote for Bill Clinton's embattled economic stimulus package when it comes up for a vote this week. The White...
Virtually unknown outside the computing community, Richard Stallman is one of the most bizarre, and certainly the most outspoken, member of it. He achieved fame by developing EMACS, the text editing program of choice for most computer users who work with machines larger than...
...much for the Warholian interlude of a 45-year-old North Carolinian named Bobby Shivar, on whom fame and fortune smiled very warmly, and all too briefly, last week. As the winner of the Gillette 3-Point Challenge promotional campaign, Bobby was given $25,000 and flown to the NCAA Final Four weekend in New Orleans to take his single -- and, as it turned out, not quite ! accurate -- shot for a million. Then it all started vanishing like a dream. Within days, he was back at work fixing the aging steam pipes around Camp Lejeune. Back in his neat three...
Peter S. Lynch, who was named to the National Business Hall of Fame by Fortune magazine, spoke last night in the Lamont Forum Room as part of a continuing series of speeches and trips sponsored by the Harvard Investment Club...
...Powell's fame for his conduct during the Persian Gulf War might have made him an appropriate Commencement speaker in 1991. Today, though, he is defined as much by his support for discrimination as he is by his past accomplishments...