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...America. One is to possess rare genius or, at the very least, an appreciable talent. The usual suspects come to mind: Hemingway, Gershwin, Hopper. Another is to appeal to a particular cultural neurosis, a peculiar demographic phenomenon. It was the latter which brought the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe more fame than he ever could have imagined and, in the eyes of many, more fame than he ever deserved...
...first is another impression of the scribe Baruch's seal, this one with a fingerprint on the edge that was presumably made by Baruch himself. The second is an analysis that claims to fix the precise location where the Ark of the Covenant (the "Lost Ark" of Raiders fame) was stored. That's sure to be controversial; the author contends that it must have been placed in a rectangular indentation on the outcropping beneath the Dome of the Rock, the sacred Muslim shrine on the Temple Mount...
...grasp of global gamesmanship led him to the New York Times. His first job: correspondent during the London blitz. He went on to win a Pulitzer chronicling the birth of the U.N. and, in 1953, became the paper's Washington bureau chief. As a thrice-weekly columnist, he gained fame for his deft prose, solid reporting and enviable access, but the latter often came at a price. In 1961, at President John F. Kennedy's request, he withheld what he knew of plans involving an obscure Cuban inlet called the Bay of Pigs. Reston later helped nurture the Times...
...suggested that religion is important to many athletes because of the case with which they achieve fame and fortune...
...ratings in the N.F.L. and one of the highest attendance figures. But most painful of all, Modell is taking with him a heritage built by Paul Brown, Marion Motley, Lou Groza and Jim Brown. "It's a dart to my heart," said Dante Lavelli, the Browns' Hall of Fame end who owns a furniture store in suburban Rocky River...