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...does seem like a jackpot kind of city, where you can just hit and make it. Fame and the pursuit of it and how serious it is as an objective now with even young people, because they think money will free them; all the money in the world will bring them their happiness...
...Rotissérie Française restaurant in New York City. That game would become known as rotisserie baseball, familiar to the millions of fans who now play fantasy sports online. The invention would earn Okrent one of the first two spots in the Fantasy Sports Hall of Fame...
Elbegdorj rose to fame as a leader of the pro-democracy protests that began in Mongolia in 1989 and led to the fall of that country’s Soviet-backed regime the following year...
...inspired [Dec. 26, 2005?Jan. 2, 2006]. In a year marked by unusual tragedy, it was heartwarming to read about an unprecedented outpouring of generosity. Your honorees are not only appropriately symbolic of that philanthropy, but also unique examples of individuals who, by virtue of their wealth and fame, can change the course of history. What your story revealed, however, was that not just their wealth and fame heightened their impact. Credit the Gateses for learning firsthand about the diseases of the poor, then making careful choices about the deployment of dollars to ensure the greatest possible return for humankind...
...David Siqueiros, who painted public murals on a heroic scale, Covarrubias made his name in the humble medium of the caricature. He arrived in New York at age 18 (after dropping out of high school when he cracked a teacher's skull in a fit of anger), and found fame and a good living almost immediately with his witty, irreverent ink portraits for glossy magazines such as the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. By 1930, when he married Rosemonde Cowan, a popular Broadway dancer and choreographer, he was a fixture in Manhattan's smart...