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...most famous presidential birthday bash is undoubtedly JFK's 45th in 1962, featuring Marilyn Monroe's sultry serenade, "Happy birthday, Mr. President." The event fueled speculation that the Chief Executive and the Playboy centerfold were having an affair. It also was reportedly the model for the 50th birthday party of another philandering President, Bill Clinton - a Radio City Music Hall gala that raised $10 million for the Democratic Party in 1996. "For obvious reasons, White House officials said, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had something a little different in mind," the Baltimore Sun reported at the time...
...most famous community organizer, U.S. President Barack Obama. This September, a delegation of high school students from Chicago will visit Sidi Moumen to study Mazoz's methods and implement them in deprived neighborhoods back home. "The grand vision is to make his endeavor into an international model," says Marilyn Diamond, co-chair of the Chicago Casablanca Sister Cities International Program. (See pictures of Barack Obama's victory celebration in Chicago...
...with him at a club for a night? Did you worry that he was just humoring you? I don't think I got to know Lenny Kravitz very well. I got my first impression, and that's what I tried to put down. I spent more time with Marilyn Manson, and he might have been more vulnerable. We had more time, and I feel like I got to know him a bit more. He and I actually kind of hit it off. We've communicated since then. But I can't say that I got to know either of them...
...their letters announcing the downsizing last week, University President Drew G. Faust and Vice President for Human Resources Marilyn Hausammann wrote that 275 employees from throughout the University would be laid off in the coming days, split evenly between union and non-union staff. But Jaeger said he thought the announcement seemed somewhat premature and that even today he was not sure how administrators arrived at that precise number...
...high-speed flowering of interest, melancholy and remorse is common at the sudden early passing of a superstar - James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, Princess Diana - whose life is marked by achievement and controversy. Jackson's death and commercial resurrection are eerily like those of Elvis Presley, dead at 42. One Hollywood cynic, learning that Presley had just died, commented, "Good career move." Cutting but prophetic: Elvis sold far more records after his death than before. Presley's daughter Lisa Marie, Jackson's wife for 20 months in the mid-'90s, recalled a few days ago on her MySpace page...