Word: fame
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Wellesley is closed for the day, too. In fact, Wellesley students have gained national fame for being the loudest and most numerous cheerleaders during the marathon. Hundreds of runners have credited their finishing the race to the massive Wellesley cheering section camped out at the half-way point in the race...
...agree to compete in a problem set competition. Of course, no musical would be complete without a love story, and Dong delivers one between Steve and his Physics 16 classmate Christene Heisenberg (the fictional great-granddaughter of Werner Heisenberg, of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle fame...
...want their kids seeing: sex, violence and drinking. Making a soap opera designed specifically for a younger crowd is a little like using Joe Camel to sell cigarettes to teenagers and I have no doubt that creator Aaron Spelling aired the show for no other reasons than further fame and fortune...
James Brown ’73—better known as “JB”—and Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw host “Fox NFL Sunday,” the most watched NFL pre-game show in America. In March, Brown launched “The James Brown Show,” a nationally syndicated sports radio morning show. His myriad hosting assignments have included two Super Bowls, two Winter Olympics, the Tour de France, the NHL, the NBA Finals and the NCAA basketball championships. At Harvard, where he concentrated in government...
...retain friends, in college and afterward. I know some very talented adults who feel justified in having few or no friends because no one meets their high standards. Perhaps these perfectionists are being authentic to themselves, but every one of them is also authentically lonely. No matter what riches, fame or influence you might acquire in your lifetime, none will contribute to your happiness or fulfillment in the same way that a group of close friends will. Find them, cultivate them, retain them. They will prove themselves imperfect, as all of us do, but you should prefer to be with...