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...over the world doing this cool-guy stuff," he says. The difficulty of hanging on to your wife--"all the guys are divorced now," says Captain Mark--or your life seems to be no deterrent. Nor is the lack of public recognition, although one 5th-grouper did achieve fame of sorts last year when a picture of him in Afghanistan was used on the packaging of a new doll called Tora Bora Ted, available online. If these soldiers have their way, the Baghdad Mark action figure will be on shelves this spring. --With reporting by Simon Robinson/Kuwait City
...PERKS OF FAME BECAUSE SHE STRIPS herself of vanity, and of concealing garments, Kathy Bates is unfailingly referred to as brave FOR HER acting in About Schmidt. But she's not immune to the luxuries available to an Oscar nominee. Of her shoot with Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue, Bates gushes, "I got to try on lots of outfits and gorgeous jewelry." Not to mention surround herself with other well-polished ornaments...
...news of that fame has long since fled the minds of Harvard students...
...fame, his appearance suggests that he never fully evolved past his student years: with vintage clothing and designer glasses, caustic wit and deadpan delivery, one can still see an easy-going undergraduate somewhere within this 32-year...
Whitehead has experienced a meteoric rise, even by Harvard standards. Called the “emerging Ralph Ellison of his generation” by writer Edwidge Danticat, who preceded Whitehead at the reading, his mixture of humor, rich allegory, and complex stories has already brought him fame as one of the great young American novelists...