Word: legendizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tears." The tall, bearded Uday, 39, has long been a braggart--not to mention a libertine and a brute. He squandered his inherited power to sate a boundless avarice, smuggling everything from booze to baby milk to oil. His avocational sadism and sexual deviance are the stuff of Iraqi legend. "In his eyes," recalls a former colleague of Uday's who agreed to speak to TIME, "you see someone who can appreciate you one minute and kill you the next. It is not natural...
When Giovanni Agnelli died in January at age 81, all Italy mourned the passing of a legend. Handsome, dashing and impeccably connected, he personified Italy's growing postwar affluence. But by the end of his life, his family's affairs were a mess. In the two months since his death, his brother Umberto, 68, has stepped out of the shadows and is moving swiftly to realign management and shore up the finances of the Agnellis' prize asset, the 104-year-old automaker Fiat, which posted a $4.6 billion loss last year...
...camps in World War II have been extensively archived in survivors' accounts, scholarly histories and documentary films. Yet the gruesome orgy of self-vivisection carried out in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1978 left behind far fewer records. History in Cambodia remains intertwined with legend, as it has since the classical era of Angkor, and the regime's reign of terror was hideously efficient, leaving very few survivors to give witness to the inner workings of the machinery of death...
...lowest goals against average in the nation for the second consecutive season and could set a new NCAA record if his mark of 1.14 holds through the postseason. LeNeveu’s eight shutouts are a Cornell single-season record—the mark was previously held by NHL legend Ken Dryden...
...time in goal last season, LeNeveu has emerged as the top goaltender in the country this year. His 1.14 goals against average is a full goal per game better than his nearest competitor, while his eight shutouts broke the single-season record at Cornell previously held by Montreal Canadiens legend Ken Dryden...