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...million Amount earned by late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain last year, making him the world's highest-paid dead celebrity according to Forbes magazine 5 Number of years Elvis Presley- No. 2 in this year's list with $42 million-held the top spot...
...evening that combined weighty issues and humor, Farmer, the Presley professor of social medicine at Harvard Medical School, answered questions on issues from Haiti to Rwanda, and from the importance of civil activism in the U.S. to the process of building a public health system in Malawi...
...grew into the first spontaneous demonstration by the Soviet intelligentsia in decades. He also recalled the funeral of poet and bard Vladimir Vysotsky in 1980. In contrast to the refined Pasternak, the folksy Vysotsky, perennially restricted and harassed by the authorities, was as popular among ordinary Soviets as Elvis Presley had been among the Americans. Vysotsky's funeral grew into the first mass people's demonstration in Moscow, and so scared the authorities that his Taganka Theater was not allowed to stage a memorial performance to pay him homage...
...Donnie Forbis, who hoped to hear his band's original music on national radio, Dream Foundation arranged a broadcast on a Sirius satellite channel, including a party that day with family and friends and a call from celebrity volunteer Priscilla Presley. For Dorothy Hensley, 89, who longed to be a published writer, the group approached an inspirational website, which posted her personal essay on dying. Both Forbis and Hensley lived to hear from fans. Local television and radio covered Forbis' national debut, and Hensley has received more than 1,000 e-mails in response to her piece...
...most recent crisis of note occurs in Hungary. Its capital city Budapest was plagued by its worst violence since the days of Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and Elvis Presley. The last time Budapest saw rioting of the same scale as it did in mid-September it was directed at the imperialism of the, now thankfully defunct, Soviet Union and was repressed at the cost of several thousand lives. The proximate cause of the most recent rioting, which left over a two hundred people injured and turned large sections of the capital city into a “battleground...