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...sang lead in a cover band, the Dutch Masters. ("I thought the name would look good painted on a drumhead," he explains.) Like several of his brothers, he caddied at the Indian Hill Golf Club to help pay his Catholic-school tuition. (Murray's father Edward, a lumber salesman, died in 1967 at age 46 of complications from diabetes; his mother Lucille, a mailroom clerk, died in 1988 of cancer.) It was while caddying that Murray developed his ferocious sense of justice. "As a poor kid carrying a rich guy's bag," says Murray, "you're not supposed to speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Many Faces of Bill | 1/3/2005 | See Source »

EXECUTION RECOMMENDED. For SCOTT PETERSON, 32, fertilizer salesman convicted, after a sensational five-month trial, of murdering his wife Laci and their unborn son Conner; by a jury in Redwood City, Calif. Judge Alfred Delucchi could reduce the sentence to life in prison at the formal sentencing in February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 27, 2004 | 12/19/2004 | See Source »

...STILLER: Was that in Death of a Salesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: High Drama, Low Comedy | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Cheadle's roles--Buck Swope, a porn star who dreams of becoming a stereo salesman, in Boogie Nights; Montel Gordon, a determined narcotics cop, in Traffic; the scene-stealing murderer, Mouse, in Devil in a Blue Dress; and Cockney explosives expert Basher Tarr in Ocean's Eleven and Twelve--are miniaturist masterpieces, full of detail and life. But as Paul Rusesabagina in the independent film Hotel Rwanda, Cheadle shows he can fill the screen as well as anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: At Last, Don Cheadle Is the Hero | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...every good thing they brought to the table, there was something offsetting." As a maverick tax cutter, Forbes was seen as a bad fit to lead Bush's team of loyalists. And Gramm, never well liked on Capitol Hill despite his 18 years in the Senate, appeared an unlikely salesman in Congress for the President's big tax- and Social Security-- reform plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flurry Over John Snow | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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