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Mason did her own part to blaze a trail for African Americans. Tapped by legendary television producer Norman Lear to write for the sitcom Good Times, she went on to amass writing credits for shows like A Different World and Redd Foxx's Sanford--programs that brought to viewers an as-yet-unseen depiction of black lives...
...been printing U.S. greenbacks since 1879). And since the program's inception in 2006, more than $2.5 million in BerkShares have circulated through bakeries, vets' offices and some 400 other businesses that choose to accept the colorful bills, which feature famous former Berkshire residents, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Norman Rockwell...
...Norman Vincent Peale right? Is there power in positive thinking? A study just published in the journal Psychological Science says trying to get people to think more positively can actually have the opposite effect: it can simply highlight how unhappy they are. (See pictures of people mourning the death of Michael Jackson...
...Timothy Rigas is serving a 20-year term; former WorldCom chief executive Bernard Ebbers, who was 63 at the time of his sentencing, was given 25 years; and former Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling got 24 years. In April 2008, a federal judge in Colorado sentenced 72-year-old Norman Schmidt to 330 years for using money from his investment scheme to purchase properties near Aspen and eight NASCAR race cars, among other items. Similar to Madoff's scheme, Schmidt's firm would send investors fraudulent monthly statements claiming big returns on their investments and urged them to contribute more...
Restaurateur Norman Brinker, 78, the creator of the salad bar, made a fortune by merging fast food and upscale dining. He started Bennigan's in 1976 and turned the Tex-Mex chain Chili's into an international brand...