Word: fame
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...writings with a cricket bat. The man whose vision of Britain is now engraved in the popular mind could not go home again. Concludes McCrum, literary editor of Britain's The Observer: "The Second World War finished Wodehouse." Not quite. He found a new home and, eventually, even greater fame after the war. As McCrum also notes, Wodehouse was every inch the Edwardian: calm in a crisis, aloof but generous (he supported an old school chum for years), quietly productive (he could pound out a novel's first draft in days), and fit as an oak (thanks to daily calisthenics...
...alleged narcotics capo said to be responsible for up to half of the illegal drugs smuggled into the U.S.; in Mexicali, Mexico. One of Mexico's most wanted men, authorities say Guerrero is the principal operative of a drug cartel allegedly run by kingpin Ismael Zambada. "This man's fame is practically one of the legends of drug trafficking," said Mexican Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha following the arrest...
...turning her thoughts to retirement. "You can't go on forever," she said after swimming a spectacular butterfly leg as part of the winning 100-m medley relay team. As for Henry, known for her slow starts and, now, for breaking world records, she's just opened her fame account. She's already being mentioned in the same breath as legends Dawn Fraser and Shane Gould. A marketer's dream, Henry appears set to become Australia's new, ever smiling, Queen of Swimming. Trying to play down the attention and any dramatic changes her success may bring, the modest Brisbaneite...
...grab the book. How about this? "Lebanon has never won an Olympic medal, but recently a Lebanese woman won the world karaoke championship in Finland, singing the 1980s classic Fame." Oh, this is the one: "Gabon's President, as you know, is Omar Bongo, now in his 37th year as head of state. And yet again, he has promised any Gabonian medal winner a new house and vast sums of cash. But the wily Bongo is hedging his bets, insofar as they have never won an Olympic medal...
...Noonan who helped the first George Bush find his voice in 1988. Her notion of a "kinder, gentler America" was picked up by Bush to soften the G.O.P.'s image after eight years of Reagan conservatism. Noonan then quit politics and went on to fame as a pundit and author...