Word: fame
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...inspired [Dec. 26, 2005?Jan. 2, 2006]. In a year marked by unusual tragedy, it was heartwarming to read about an unprecedented outpouring of generosity. Your honorees are not only appropriately symbolic of that philanthropy, but also unique examples of individuals who, by virtue of their wealth and fame, can change the course of history. What your story revealed, however, was that not just their wealth and fame heightened their impact. Credit the Gateses for learning firsthand about the diseases of the poor, then making careful choices about the deployment of dollars to ensure the greatest possible return for humankind...
...inspired [Dec. 26, 2005-Jan. 2, 2006]. In a year marked by unusual tragedy, it was heartwarming to read about an unprecedented outpouring of generosity. Your honorees are not only appropriately symbolic of that philanthropy but also unique examples of individuals who, by virtue of their wealth and fame, can change the course of history. What your story revealed, however, was that not just their wealth and fame heightened their impact. Credit the Gateses for learning firsthand about the diseases of the poor, then making careful choices about the deployment of dollars to ensure the greatest possible return for humankind...
...David Siqueiros, who painted public murals on a heroic scale, Covarrubias made his name in the humble medium of the caricature. He arrived in New York at age 18 (after dropping out of high school when he cracked a teacher's skull in a fit of anger), and found fame and a good living almost immediately with his witty, irreverent ink portraits for glossy magazines such as the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. By 1930, when he married Rosemonde Cowan, a popular Broadway dancer and choreographer, he was a fixture in Manhattan's smart...
...perhaps above all is the need to rationalize the weirdness of celebrity. Fame is like a superpower, conferred near instantly on once ordinary people, unless you're a royal or a Minnelli. Celebrities can make us pay good money to watch movies based on TV shows we wouldn't watch for free in reruns. They change our clothes and haircuts. They even get us to buy--God help us--puggles. You should be grateful that Sharon Stone and Tom Hanks merely ask you to join the fight against AIDS. They could just as easily command you to build a pair...
DIED. JAMES INGO FREED, 75, soft-spoken New York architect who catapulted to international fame as the much hailed designer of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, above, in Washington; of complications of Parkinson's disease; in New York City. Freed, an émigré from Nazi Germany who became the longtime business partner of I.M. Pei, designed, among other things, Manhattan's sprawling Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Washington's Ronald Reagan Building. Of the Holocaust Museum's hexagonal, skylighted Hall of Remembrance, he said, "Light is the only thing I know that heals. People at the camps said...