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With 500 million Facebook subscribers on his network and an estimated $7 billion net worth, he's also effectively erased once-bright lines between professional and personal, inauthentic and real -- indeed, the past and present themselves.

Ann Hornaday reviews 'The Social Network' and 'Waiting for "Superman" ' Ann Hornaday 2010

More Japan Real Time: How Soccer Rallies Japan Japan Outlasts U.S. to Win World Cup While spared the worst of the quake, tsunami and radiation, Tokyo itself has had a dour summer, as electricity shortages have forced stores to dim their once-bright neon lights, and offices to darken hallways and curb air conditioning, even as temperatures have soared.

Soccer Win Brings Joy to Nation Yoree Koh 2011

Stewart will navigate two sets of risks Saturday: He will, a handwringing legion of journalists and bloggers worry, cross the once-bright line from commentary to political participation, and find himself stranded, unable to return.

Politico Has Concerns About Rally To Restore Sanity For Some Reason Jason Linkins 2010

Stewart will navigate two sets of risks Saturday: He will, a handwringing legion of journalists and bloggers worry, cross the once-bright line from commentary to political participation, and find himself stranded, unable to return.

Politico Has Concerns About Rally To Restore Sanity For Some Reason The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Stewart will navigate two sets of risks Saturday: He will, a handwringing legion of journalists and bloggers worry, cross the once-bright line from commentary to political participation, and find himself stranded, unable to return.

Politico Has Concerns About Rally To Restore Sanity For Some Reason Jason Linkins 2010

Not a day went by that Jaina did not think of him, wondering if there was anything she could have done, anything she could have said, to have turned the once-bright paladin from his dark path.

The Shattering Christie Golden 2010

Not a day went by that Jaina did not think of him, wondering if there was anything she could have done, anything she could have said, to have turned the once-bright paladin from his dark path.

The Shattering Christie Golden 2010

In time — about three years, according to Mr. Tong — the once-bright fruit turns dark and floats in an amber-tinged solution.

A Lu Legacy: Cooking Up a Family Heirloom Amy Ma 2010

"Not now," Mike said, morosely pulling a long chain of once-bright chiffon scarves from his sleeve.

Bread, Fish, Serpent, Stone 2010

But both these models, in their blunt rejection of IGE's third-party retail model, only underline what Pierce himself implicitly conceded when he sold out to Yantis: There is no future for his once-bright dream except in the dimness of what is plainly now a permanent gray market.

The Decline and Fall of an Ultra Rich Online Gaming Empire By Julian Dibbell 2008