Word: famed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weapons inspection team led by former U.S. Marine captain and Gulf War veteran Scott Ritter, it may just have handed his home country a hero on a plate. Ritter, derided in the Iraqi press as a "hyena" and CIA spy, made the most of his 15 minutes of fame with an impromptu press conference outside the U.N. compound in Baghdad. The refusal to provide escorts, he said, amounted to "a failure of Iraq to comply with its obligation to carry out the provisions of Security Council resolutions...
...Year's Eve, the family had gathered at the Sundeck restaurant on top of the mountain in Aspen, fame's playground, waiting for the slopes to clear at the end of the day so they could have the hill to themselves to continue the annual family downhill football game. The ski patrol was not keen on this bit of Kennedy showboating and had warned that it was a dangerous sport--skiing fast and close, without poles, tossing a football through improvised goals as the sun sank and the shadows stretched and the slopes turned gray and icy. Aspen...
Another key consideration for Karen Liu, a sixth-year student in immunology, was Harvard's fame and prestige...
Once Again Together in Mourning Michael Kennedy aimed at the heights reached by the titans of his clan, but his share of fame included tawdry scandal and, in the end, a senseless death. TIME magazine reports...
...ANGELES: Fame is not a condition, it's a disease. So said a contrite Christian Slater on Sunday, meeting the press for the first time since being sentenced last Tuesday to 90 days in jail. Slater pleaded no contest to a battery of misdemeanor counts, including abusing his girlfriend, resisting arrest and being under the influence of alcohol and cocaine...