Word: fame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Most of us have little problem with aristocracy, benevolent or otherwise. Many of you will spend next year in the corporate and academic worlds, both aristocracies of varying degrees. Do not, in your spirals up or down towards money or fame or angst, forget the importance of the ritual gesture...
...creator of Napster, Fanning has reached a level of fame unprecedented for a 19-year-old who is neither a sports hero nor a pop star. He's been on the cover of FORTUNE, BusinessWeek, Forbes and the Industry Standard and has been profiled just about everywhere else. His name and his face--those piercing blue eyes, wide cheeks and stolid expression under the ever present University of Michigan baseball cap--have become synonymous with the promise of the Internet to empower computer users and the possibility that some kiddie-punk programmer will destroy entire industries. Strangers pick...
...that, Fanning has been unable to capitalize fully on his fame and notoriety. While he is pulling down a high five-figure salary as lead programmer of client applications for Napster and owns 9% of the company, so far that 9% has proved essentially worthless, since the company is still privately held...
...event that was part spiritual awakening, part Southern storytelling and part moral crusade, Sister Helen Prejean, of Dead Man Walking fame, enthralled a packed crowd at the Divinity School yesterday afternoon...
...center of the scandal was Kevin Pendergast, a former Notre Dame football star who had gained fame in 1992 when he was hurriedly pressed into action during the Sugar Bowl game after the team's place kicker was injured. He kicked one field goal and an extra point at a critical time, helping the Irish to a dramatic 39-28 come-from-behind upset victory over favored Florida. Two years later, he kicked the winning field goal for Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl in a stirring 24-21 victory over Texas A&M. He had arrived at Notre Dame...