Recent issues have featured Yasir Arafat, Al Sharpton, Michael Stipe of the rock group R.

FORBES: Starting Your Own Business: Impossible dream

Recent issues have featured Yasir Arafat, New York African-American activist Al Sharpton, and Michael Stipe of the rock group R.

FORBES: Impossible dream

For cover art on their first album, lead singer Michael Stipe enlisted college friend Sandra-Lee Phipps to help take pictures.

WSJ: For R.E.M. Fans, Tunes May Linger But Trestle Faces Day of Reckoning

Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited, a new tribute album, turns a cross-section of contemporary artists Cat Power and Michael Stipe among them loose on English-language versions of some of his best-known songs.

NPR: Dirty and Bored: Serge Gainsbourg Revisited

Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Mary J Blige, Bono, Destiny's Child and Michael Stipe are among the artists who have contributed to the single - a version of the Marvin Gaye classic What's Going On?

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Michael Stipe of R.

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