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Before she was ever an icon or a punch line, a media mogul or an accused felon, Martha Stewart was a person who would stand her ground, no matter what. In 1987, when Stewart was negotiating with Kmart for the licensing deal that would turn her into, literally, a household name, she was just a popular cookbook author--"a nobody," says Paul Argenti, who worked on the project as a consultant to Kmart's CEO. Nevertheless, she stood up to Kmart's top executives, who wanted her to take an exclusive deal with the Lifetime cable channel to help promote...
...write off the Cubs slugger just yet.? Americans love sports heroes, and in this case, Sosa's cult of personality will bring him back to baseball icon status in no time. Few players are so openly enthusiastic about the game as Sosa.? In terms of popularity, he?s on par with baseball's greatest Latin hero, Roberto Clemente, and in fact may be even more popular than Clemente was in his heyday.? His friendly spirit, community activism (he lends his name to everything from health clinics in the Dominican Republic to hurricane relief) and athletic abilities are an island...
...when he was working for a company called Jasmine Technologies, he and his buddies used to go water-skiing on weekends, taking their first-generation Macintoshes and trading software. Gaidano still remembers that sinking feeling the weekend he booted up his Mac and saw the sad-face icon, indicating all was not well with the single floppy disc inside. Every precious byte, including all Gaidano's romantic correspondence, was gone. "I was all freaked out," he says. "Nobody could tell me what to do to recover it"--not even his government contacts...
...CHARGED. MARTHA STEWART, 61, American lifestyle icon; with securities fraud and obstruction of justice; in New York City. Stewart, founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, is also being prosecuted by the Securities and Exchange Commission for insider trading of shares in ImClone Systems a day before the biotech company announced that its application to market a cancer drug was rejected. She has pleaded not guilty to all charges for which she could face up to 30 years in prison...
...like a Senator from the 19th century than one from the 21st. He has never seen MTV. He refers to the camera in the Senate chamber as "the eee-leck-tronic eye." But due to his fierce opposition to the Iraq war, Byrd at 85 has become an Internet icon with a rash of young and liberal admirers, which is ironic given that Byrd fought civil rights in the '60s and, as is often noted, briefly joined the Ku Klux Klan. Once known as a hawk ("I was the last man out of Vietnam," he says), Byrd has become...