Word: iconically
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...telethon history. And in 1998, it joined the computer age when it became the first telethon to be seen worldwide via Internet simulcast. The program's pledged donations have grown from $1 million in 1966 to $65 million during the 2008 broadcast. (See pictures of Jerry Lewis, the clown icon...
...connection to Aung San Suu Kyi - the democracy icon known in Burma simply as the Lady, who in August was sentenced to 11/2 years of house arrest - that had led me to the Shwe Zedi monastery in the first place. Located in the crumbling Indian Ocean port of Sittwe, Shwe Zedi was the monastery of U Ottama, a revered monk whose pacifist resistance against the colonial British inspired independence hero Aung San, father of Suu Kyi. In 2002, this was one of the few places the Nobel Peace Prize winner visited between stints of house arrest, and she called...
...Read TIME's commemorative issue: Michael Jackson, mourning an icon...
...Obama was elevated to fashion-icon status way before last November. She has gone along with it, appearing on the cover of magazines and dressing up for big occasions. But it's not in her personal or political interest to hew too closely to that image. It's too limiting. It's exhausting. And, most of all, it separates her from the bulk of American womanhood, who do not have the wherewithal or energy to put it together perfectly every day. It's contraindicated with the just-folks charm that is the core of the Obamas appeal. (Read about...
...international travelers know, there's nothing unusual about airport security officers pulling passengers out of line for extra screening. But that generally doesn't happen to Shah Rukh Khan, one of India's biggest film stars and a global entertainment icon. Khan, 43, was passing through Newark Liberty International Airport Aug. 15 when immigration officials removed him from line and questioned him for more than an hour. Khan (along with much of India) reacted angrily to the perceived slight, which he called "absolutely uncalled for." Many are accusing U.S. officials of profiling the South Asian heartthrob because of his race...