Like most people who are me, I long to be a worldwide icon. Unfortunately, my copy of The Worldwide Icon How-to Guide was published in 1950, when you could get famous writing a column in TIME magazine
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Legend Of Dylan
Bob Dylan is flipping through his own back pages. He has finally started writing an autobiography
After the Tucson Shooting, Arizona Addresses Mental Health
Tucson, Ariz., has regained a semblance of normalcy four months after the crime that drew worldwide attention.
Battle Fatigue
Even by the famously hot-blooded standards of opera, last week’s passionate dramma giocoso at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City was positively — well, operatic. In the fiery lead role was the mercurial lyric soprano Kathleen Battle, renowned for leaving a trail of ill will in her wake wherever she goes
New Game
They oohed as animated football players threw one another to the ground.
Letterman producer defends host to women’s group
The executive producer of the “Late Show with David Letterman” defended the company’s treatment of women in response to a letter from the president of the National Organization for Women, who said the star’s actions created a “toxic environment.” “Since we started as a company in 1993, we have taken very seriously the issues you raise regarding respect for women in the workplace,” Rob Burnett wrote in a letter dated October 15.
G-20 leaders meet to bolster global economy
Leaders representing 85 percent of the world’s economic output were gathering Thursday in a U.S. city that has reinvented itself, hoping to bolster the global economy
Fake golf clubs scam ‘duped’ eBay customers
A worldwide network of fraudsters conned thousands of people into buying fake golf clubs on eBay, a London court has heard. In allegedly the largest fraud uncovered by the online auction site, the counterfeit clubs, as well as clothing and other golf accessories, were sold “on a scale, it is believed, has never been seen before,” prosecutors told Snaresbrook Crown Court