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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...would probably know nothing of those drawings today if O'Keeffe hadn't mailed some to a friend in New York who took them to the photographer Alfred Stieglitz, a pivotal figure in the small world of American modernism. Stieglitz agreed to include them in a group show at his 291 gallery, the tiny cockpit of advanced art where O'Keeffe had seen those Picassos and Marins. They were an immediate hit. Two years later, he gave her a solo exhibition that made her name for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worlds Within | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Letterman took heat - when Howard Stern is criticizing your treatment of women, you know you've screwed up - and the questions came thick: Would viewers turn to Conan O'Brien or Jay Leno, if CBS didn't have to get rid of him altogether? And could Letterman tell sex jokes about politicians anymore? (See the top 10 political sex scandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Dave Letterman Survive the Scandal? | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

When I heard that Sarah Palin wrote her upcoming 400-page autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life, in four months, I thought, What took her so long? To prove that introspection doesn't need to be time-consuming, I decided to try to write my memoir in one day. Since Palin had a ghostwriter, I figured it was only fair that I have help too, so I called Neil Strauss, who co-wrote the best-selling memoirs of Marilyn Manson, Mötley Crüe, Dave Navarro and Jenna Jameson. Strauss and fellow ghostwriter Anthony Bozza run an imprint called Igniter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rogue Journalist: Writing My Memoir Palin-Style | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Just over two and a half minutes into the first overtime, freshman forward Caroline Albanese took the ball down the sideline and played it off her defender to earn her team a corner kick from the left side of the field. Sophomore midfielder Melanie Baskind took the kick for the Crimson, placing it just in front of the goal for Sheeleigh, who knocked the ball to the ground before hammering it home...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard-Brown Decided By Overtime Golden Goal | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Though it took an extra session for either team to net a score, both teams had earlier chances to end the match. Less than a minute before Sheeleigh’s shot sent Brown back to Providence, the Bears had a strong opportunity to come away with the victory...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard-Brown Decided By Overtime Golden Goal | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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