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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cannot sustain a major capital expenditure, then find a donor like Harkness. When schools like the GSAS are cutting their admissions by 10 percent, the College has no right to demand more comfortable housing—however crucial it may be to intellectual development. So why not turn to Rich Uncle Pennybags, some...

Author: By Noah M. Silver | Title: A Modern Mr. Harkness | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...salesman for himself and his vision of the American dream, he was also a master peddler of many products, whose makers were as loyal to Harvey as his listeners were. A skit from the 1984-85 season of Saturday Night Live had Harvey (played by Rich Hall) compulsively peppering his news items with sponsor names. The man remained unapologetic. "Some days," he told Larry King in 1988, "the best news in the broadcast is the commercial. You can keep your natural teeth all your natural life! There is a glove that doesn't wear out! There is a car battery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Harvey: The End of the Story | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...Rest of the Story, first published in 1977, hit its 18th printing in four years. And on the Internet, you'll find 65,000 links to what is known as the Paul Harvey riddle: "What is greater than God, more evil than the devil? The poor have it, the rich don't need it. And if you eat it, you'll die." There is no evidence that Harvey ever read this on the air, but it's just the kind of whimsical poser that, because his name was attached to it, attracted a zillion Googlers. He sold concepts too. (Answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Harvey: The End of the Story | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...isn’t infected with some weird screen-warping virus; that’s actually what it’s supposed to look like. In the latest video from his Auto-Tune drenched album “808s and Heartbreak,” Kanye plays the poor-little-rich-rapper card while simultaneously re-enacting his latest acid trip. The video opens with West in sunglasses and a color-block sweater—think Will Smith on “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”—against a dark background which unexpectedly starbursts into sensory...

Author: By Arhana Chattopadhyay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Kanye West | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...Seinfeld, Jerry • discovery by that "the comedic potential" of marriage "is quite rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

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