Word: legendizing
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...Rogers became an investing legend in the 1970s while running a spectacularly successful hedge fund with George Soros. Since then, the Alabama native has traveled around the world more than once - on motorcycle and in a car - writing about his experiences, and his thoughts on investing, along the way. Last year, he moved to Singapore, to be close to the economic growth engine that is Asia, and also saw the launch of tradeable securities tied to a commodities index he created. TIME's Barbara Kiviat caught up with him by phone while he was on the road from Brussels...
...John Legend has not yet lived up to his name as a “legend” in the R&B world, but he is certainly a favorite of some industry greats. His rise to stardom can be largely credited to collaborations with the best and brightest of the urban music scene, from his beginnings playing piano on Lauryn Hill’s “Everything is Everything,” to his signing with Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label in 2003, to the multiple collabos that followed with that Chi-town superstar. His work...
...Nesson wrote. “They do this, not for the purpose of recovering compensation for actual damage caused by Joel’s individual action, nor for the primary purpose of deterring him from further copyright infringement, but for the ulterior purpose of creating an urban legend so frightening to children using computers, and so frightening to parents and teachers of students using computers, that they will somehow reverse the tide of the digital future...
...Rivera reported on and photographed civil rights stories about the last lynchings in South Carolina and Georgia as well as school desegregation in the South. Working for newspapers like the Washington Tribune and the Pittsburgh Courier, Rivera also photographed African Americans such as opera singer Marian Anderson and tennis legend Arthur Ashe. He later spent more than 15 years as the publicist for North Carolina Central University. Rivera...
...CORNELL (3-3, 1-2 Ivy)This is a pretty boring game featuring a pair of mediocre teams, each riding a three-game losing streak. So, in sticking with the Halloween theme, I have made my pick based on which school has the best campus legend featured on its Wikipedia page. My one and only source for term papers mentions Princeton’s “Phantom of Fine Hall…an obscure, shadowy figure that would infest Fine Hall, home to the Mathematics Department, and write complex equations on blackboards.”Even if the phantom...