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The rapper's fans have waited, not always patiently, as label woes, legal wrangling and personal issues pushed the album back almost indefinitely, all the while earning a sort of mythical status not unlike Dr. Dre's Detox or Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy.

"The subject of the tour was the Madman, but the real issue was the village," one of the collective tells us, explaining that many of the subjects are (or were) revered characters whose presence is valued, some earning a sort of amber shaded folklore in the re-telling of the stories.

He and his wife of 55 years, Sarah, earned a sort of Triple Crown this year, breaking meet records for victories as the leading owners at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky.; at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.; and at Saratoga in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

My stepfather spent much of my and my sister's teenage years reading Turgenev and smoking roll-ups in the back yard: this earned him a sort of gradual, grudging respect from us.

Their happy ending felt like something not only they had earned, but a sort of reward to patient viewers.

Putting up plays with titles like "Axe Lizzie" and "The Legend of Ginger Bread: A Story of Sex, Salvation & Baked Goods," the young company's productions have earned them a sort of "bad boy" reputation within the city's theatre scene.

Earning any sort of profit would essentially be gravy, they contend.

I'd have liked more of Tom, the folk singer who earns a tainted sort of fame with a song about the tragedy, or about the siblings' parents, whose tyranny only glancingly figures in their children's lives.

Auburn has earned a certain sort of praise from those who were its toughest critics in 2006.

He did not hear anything, but he earned a curious sort of scientific immortality for his frustration.

Cumulatively, they earn the author a sort of trust.Certainly, this is a book about people.