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...other competing authors is a strict secret, but it's a safe bet that the trustees of London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (gosh), to whom Barrie bequeathed the royalties of Peter Pan in 1929, had more bankable names than hers to pick from. She jokes that fame has eluded her because her name is hard to pronounce (say Ma-cork-run) and has to be printed small to fit on the spine. Fame may find her in early October with the media blitz that will accompany Peter Pan in Scarlet when it's published in English...
Eugene Jarecki has risen to fame through his politically charged documentaries “The Trials of Henry Kissinger” and currently “Why We Fight.” Jarecki admits, in an interview with The Crimson, that his movies are subjective in the same mode as filmmaker Michael Moore. However, he insists that “Why We Fight” is not about George Bush. The film, which considers America’s obsession with war, is not meant to attack certain politicians or parties. Jarecki says he believes that, regardless of the administration...
...article about the origins of the will to succeed sparked a lively debate between readers who admired the people we profiled and those who believe there's more to life than fame and fortune...
...lifted, using a stolen flatbed crane, from the grounds of the late artist's foundation in Hertfordshire. William Webber of the Art Loss Register, which tracks the lucrative global market in stolen art, says "it's difficult to know where they might end up." Despite their size and fame, he adds, "There's definitely a market for them." But in what form? The other pieces, among them a war memorial, a giant dung beetle and a life-size boar, are less valuable and have nothing in common except that they are big, unguarded - and made of bronze. Vernon Rapley, head...
...QUICK GLANCE AT THE ECONOMY OF A SMALL Mexican town like Tuxpan makes it clear why undocumented workers continue to head north. Tuxpan's heyday was in the 1950s and '60s, when it gained fame throughout Mexico for its gladiolus. But overproduction slowly poisoned the soil, leaving Tuxpan in a slow decline. In the past decade, flowers have made a comeback, but the salary for working in the greenhouses or out in the field still averages only $10 a day. At the same time, the cost of living is comparatively high in Tuxpan. As in much of small-town Mexico...