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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only thing we haven't done is have sex.' MATT LAUER, Today show host, on his friendship with Martha Stewart, at her induction ceremony into the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...numbers, Buddy Holly's career - which lasted a year and a half with only one number one single - hardly seems the stuff of legend. He only accepted top billing on the 24-day, 24-town "Winter Dance Party" tour alongside the Big Bopper (of "Chantilly Lace" fame) and Richie Valens ("La Bamba") as a way to dig himself out of bankruptcy. And yet his influence on early rock 'n' roll is almost unmatched. Holly was barely out of high school when he opened for Elvis Presley in 1955. He popularized the two guitar, one bass, one drum lineup that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day the Music Died | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...That might be easier said than done, especially in cultures where a girl's honor is held as supremely important. Minoui, who has spent considerable time with Nujood, says the girl still risks attacks from male relatives who believe she has sullied the family's reputation. But her fame appears to have protected her from that possibility for now. (Read about what divorce does to kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A 10-Year-Old Divorcée Takes Paris | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...sports and entertainment search executive Beaudine. Instead, rely on your "Who network," meaning your community of true friends--and their friends--to get you where you want to go, both professionally and personally. But don't be so sure success is the answer, he cautions: "If money, power and fame were the magic bullet in life, then Elvis Presley would've been the most deliriously happy, contented person on the planet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...great friend Kay Yow, the Hall of Fame basketball coach who died at 66 on Jan. 24 after a long, courageous fight with breast cancer, just had a way of dealing with the disease. She fought it for more than two decades--Kay got her first diagnosis in 1987--but never played the pity role. She always gravitated to other people and asked them how they were holding up. Kay wanted to help others with their battles, even though she was fighting the toughest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kay Yow | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

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