Word: fame
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...breaches that core, as Carol S. Dweck does in her contribution “Beliefs that Make Smart People Dumb,” the insights can be weighty and provocative. She posits that smart people behave stupidly precisely because they possess great intelligence. Arthur Conan Doyle, of Sherlock Holmes fame, is a prime example. The author’s creation was famous for debunking supernatural phenomenon by giving them rational explanations. Doyle himself, however was a disciple of the supernatural and a great believer in the fantastical apparitions revealed during seances. Though Holmes would argue that these visions were fraudulent...
After the Rotary Club meeting in 1997, Wally Amos (of chocolate-chip cookie fame) connected Keith to a small Maui company, Inner Ocean Publishing. After he expanded the commandments to a book explaining the meaning of each one, that company not only bought the manuscript but sold its rights to several foreign publishers, as well as Penguin Putnam...
...bashing of student-athletes in your pages (Op-Ed, “Ending Athletic Preference,” April 29) has far exceeded its 15 minutes of fame. The latest piece by Nicholas F. Josefowitz ’05, is particularly insulting to student-athletes. Harvard is the way it is because the university recognizes that one’s college education is broadened through social and intellectual interaction with a group of peers different than oneself. As much as it kills some introverted geniuses, that group necessarily includes athletes. It is through these student-athletes that Harvard is most...
...nearly 2) and a DNA test proved he was the father. Nor does Blake rank as high as Simpson on the celebrity scale. Blake, his youthful promise long gone, is merely a washed-up actor; Simpson is a washed-up actor who is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame...
...Winners MAGIC JOHNSON NBA great is nominated to basketball Hall of Fame. Meanwhile, current Laker Jelani McCoy is a lock for the Sepi?s Sandwich Wall of Fame COURTNEY LOVE Mrs. Cobain spared a sanity test in lawsuit filed against her by ex-Nirvana band members. All parties agreed it would be a waste of time MICHAEL EISNER Top mouse sees Disney post $259 million earnings. New theme park attraction, Wall of Fake Breasts, certainly seems to have paid off Losers CHARLES MANSON Killer denied parole for 10th time. We?re surprised: Charles kept his cell tidy, flossed daily...