Word: fame
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...Winthrop House residents who pick up packages and get busted for loud parties, security officer Enoch Kyerematen is known for providing superior service in a mostly sedentary job. In his youth, however, he earned considerable fame in his native Ghana due to his ability in the fast-paced game of table tennis, a game he still enjoys—and can dominate...
...Harvard team, comprised of both undergraduates and graduate students, qualified for this weekend’s tournament held at the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame by finishing fourth at the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship in Providence, R.I. in December...
...Timberlake are just two kids who fell in love. However, their celebrity status, a demanding public and a hounding media prevented their relationship from being anything close to normal. Although the love was their own, everyone but them controlled how it was presented under the harsh lights of fame. Aren’t they lucky...
...Naha. The incident was the latest in a string of public relations debacles for the U.S. military in Okinawa, whose personnel number some 26,000. Woodland has been sentenced to 32 months in jail. INDUCTED. RAGGEDY ANN, 87, wholesome redheaded doll, into the U.S. National Toy Hall of Fame, joining such icons as Barbie and Mr. Potato Head; in Salem, Oregon. With the support of letter-writing fans, Raggedy Ann won the honor after having been passed over four times. RESENTENCED. KRISHNA MAHARAJ, 63, British baron of banana imports who spent the past 15 years on Florida's death...
...less than a year after the U.S. had entered World War I, 15 Red Sox players were already in the military. By the end of the war, almost 250 players were serving, and many were on the battlefield in Europe. Christy Mathewson, a Hall of Fame pitcher and manager of the Cincinnatti Reds, was one of many who enlisted in the army. Mathewson died seven years later, after developing tuberculosis from poison...