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...CLAIM TO FAME In the spring of 2003, New York City--based designer Gregory met with U2 stylist Sharon Blankson, who mentioned that Bono and his wife Hewson were thinking about starting a clothing line. A few weeks later, Bono paid a visit to the Rogan showroom...
...CLAIM TO FAME Since co-founding the Small Planet Institute and Fund with her mother, author Frances Moore Lappé, the Brooklyn resident has been raising money for environmental organizations around the world, like a quarter of a million dollars for Kenya's Green Belt Movement, which has planted 30 million trees since 1977. As a Food and Society Policy fellow at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, she travels the country educating Americans about the connection between food policy and public health...
...Horowitz has always been up for the challenge. At eight, he became the world’s youngest licensed amateur radio operator. More recently, he served as a model for the protagonist in astronomer Carl Sagan’s novel Contact, made into a 1997 movie starring Jodie Foster. Fame can bring glory, but not necessarily little green men—or their flashing lights...
...DIED. WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR., 81, charismatic, controversial civil-rights agitator who shot to national fame in the late 1960s as the scooter-riding, antiwar chaplain of Yale University; in Strafford, Vermont. The United Church of Christ minister, known for having been arrested in the South during civil-rights protests in the early '60s, rankled Washington politicians with his voluble attacks on the Vietnam War. In 1968, he was convicted with Dr. Benjamin Spock for conspiracy to encourage draft evasion, after Coffin delivered to the Justice Department more than 100 draft cards they had collected at antiwar rallies. (The conviction...
...party, Moulin Rouge, the color pink--each guest of honor is really after only one thing. "I feel famous. I love it," says one. Another: "I definitely felt like I was famous." Yet one more: "I felt like such a star." The teenagers take on all the tics of fame, from tiny dogs to referring to oneself in the third person. We are all Paris Hilton...