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  • IN THE NEWS: Warming up the time period for the return of Survivor next week, CBS News revives the iconic interview show Person to Person (8/7c), with morning host Charlie Rose and rising-star foreign correspondent Lara Logan taking over from the legendary Edward R. Murrow, chatting up George Clooney, Jon Bon Jovi and (from his office rather than his home) Warren Buffett. ...

    Wednesday TV Overview: SVU, Idol Goes to Hollywood, Revenge Is Back, and More 2012

  • Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), the current GOP rising-star flavor of the month, skipped watching the president's press conference Tuesday night.

    Oops, He Did It Again 2009

  • A dark horse in the race would be the government spokesman, Mr. Edano, who has regained his rising-star status after becoming the face of the Japanese government's disaster response following the magnitude-9.0 quake and tsunami.

    Battle for Japan Premiership Takes Shape Toko Sekiguchi 2011

  • A dark horse in the race would be the government spokesman, Mr. Edano, who has regained his rising-star status after becoming the face of the Japanese government's disaster response following the magnitude-9.0 quake and tsunami.

    Battle for Japan Premiership Takes Shape Toko Sekiguchi 2011

  • Vibraphonist Warren Wolf Jr., who has been tapped with "rising-star" status, is the Mike Tyson of his instrument.

    Brian Ross: Christian McBride & Inside Straight - Fame Eludes Greatness Brian Ross 2011

  • They don't sound like the Tubes, but they couple the same gale-force energy and confidence to startlingly original material most of it by rising-star leader Ben Cottrell that uses big band traditions while radically modernising them.

    This week's new live music 2012

  • "He was very aware of her rising-star status and who she was and everything about her, even down to the fact that she recently had given birth to Trig," Recher said.

    First on the Ticker: Bush, Palin aide disputes book claims 2009

  • Gray then made what can only be described as a product testimonial, a money-back guarantee on the rising-star conservative host.

    Alexander Zaitchik: Past is Prologue: Glenn Beck's "Rally for America" Redux 2010

  • Trivia part 2: which 'rising-star' Governor shouted-out SportsCenter in his faux-State of the Union speech?

    Clean Energy Jobs: Pass The American Power Act Now 2010

  • Now, under new direction and headed by 28-year-old rising-star chef Nicolas Rondelli, the pricey but delicious regional specialties (crab and leek ravioli with grilled prawns, shoulder of lamb with eggplant) are well worth the splurge.

    Cannes's Gastronomic Glitz 2010

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