Word: fame
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...Jolie had not whisked him from the orphanage to instant fame, Pax Thien most likely would have ended up being adopted by another, probably foreign, family, because of the intense overseas demand. "At present, there are more [foreign] requests for adoptions than there are eligible children for adoptions," says Vu Duc Long, head of Vietnam's International Adoption Department, which is part of the Ministry of Justice. "There is more demand than supply." Last year, 163 U.S. parents adopted Vietnamese children, making Vietnam the 14th most popular adoption source. (China is number 1 with more than 6,000 U.S. adoptions...
...unusually subdued for a Saturday night in late February. In Dakar's popular Sicap Baobab district, the normally packed Toucan restaurant was empty and quiet, save for the voice of local pop star Cheikh Lô coming from speakers above the bar. In 1996 Lô hit international fame with Né La Thiass (Gone in a Flash), which warned about sudden changes of destiny. With Senegal emerging from a tumultuous election, the most keenly contested in its history, that lyric is timely again, echoing sentiment about the country's tippy democratic traditions and life under newly re-elected...
...read “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” on the sidewalk next to his school at the 2002 Olympic torch relay in Juneau, Alaska. His principal argued that the sign encouraged drug use and interfered with the educational mission of the school. Kenneth Starr of Monica Lewinsky fame, who represented the principal, asked the court to carve out a “drug exception” to student free speech. This represents the virulent erosion of centuries of constitutional precedent and is a slippery slope towards an even sharper reduction in the free speech rights of students. After...
Gerson himself knows that it is not. He admitted that “one of the worries that we have and the price of the fame of the scholarship is that a lot of successful American students, instead of asking, ‘What is it that I really want to do and why,’ ask themselves, ‘What is the next most competitive thing I can apply for?’” Queried whether Harvard pushes the Rhodes on unwilling victims, he attributed the unusual number of Harvard-educated scholars...
Julian McMahon, an actor widely known for his dark and racy roles, is embarking on an uncharted course: the one traveled by the regular American Joe. After gaining fame in the United States by playing such parts as the fierce demon Cole Turner on the television show “Charmed” and the smoldering Dr. Christian Troy on “Nip/Tuck,” the native Aussie’s new film, “Premonition,” finds him in a surprisingly tame role. MIDDLE OF THE ROAD Although “Premonition?...