Word: newsweek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exactly your usual lineup of Newsweek and Time...
...exactly your usual lineup of Newsweek and Time...
...working as a contract negotiator for a shipping company and thought business was his calling. But he found himself taking more time off and, over his employer's objections, bringing his little girl to work on occasion. Then in 1992 he wrote a short essay for Newsweek that set the course of his new career. Lamenting the absence of positive father figures in children's literature, the piece drew enormous response from readers...
Franken is notorious for his anti-Republican humor. In 1996, he was fired from Newsweek for asking Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan if he Had, among other things, "ever had a homo-erotic dream...
Doyle's claim to fame was the hand-held game Merlin, which he invented in the 1970s. Merlin, an electronic game similar to Simon, was marketed by Parket Brothers and featured on the cover of Newsweek when it debuted in 1978. About 5 million were sold, according to Doyle...