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...gossiping about them in Annenberg. Some, like Ferguson, contend with a different beast of visibility. And though the three discussed here—Niall Ferguson, N. Gregory Mankiw, and Robert A. Lue—are all accomplished, impressive individuals, each of them has a different method of managing his fame...
...self-aware as to how other people perceive me,” he says at the very beginning when asked about his fame. Indeed, there seems to be a disconnect between the “real” Mankiw and the Mankiw that is the stuff of freshman gossip. If you didn’t know any better, you’d think he was clueless about his fame...
...fame beyond his overcrowded freshman class lies in his lofty former positions as the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors to the Bush White House from 2003-2005 along with textbooks that have sold over one million copies and become the classroom standard. Though his duties in research and teaching keep him busy, Mankiw is uniquely known for maintaining an active online presence in the form...
Paul Shaffer is finally stepping out in front. Before landing the gig as David Letterman's bandleader and sidekick on Late Night (now called Late Show) in 1982, the native Canadian navigated a long, winding path to fame: from playing music in Toronto strip clubs to joining the original Saturday Night Live band and cast in the '70s - and along the way co-composing the Weather Girls' hit "It's Raining Men" and starring in a short-lived sitcom. His memoir, We'll Be Here the Rest of Our Lives, is chock-full of tales from the 59-year...
According to the Post article “Harvard Jerks Stalked Emma,” Watson, the Brown University freshman and starlet of Harry Potter fame, came to Cambridge for the Harvard-Brown football game September 25 only to be “stalked” by members of The Voice, who updated a blog with pictures and her whereabouts throughout the game. Unfortunately, media organizations such as The Post have been unable to understand that The Voice is a humor-leaning student-life magazine and that there is a distinction between satire and a true violation of journalistic ethics...