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...this is really to me the take-home message - is that there's good news and bad news. The bad news is that it's very difficult, if not impossible, to look younger. But the good news is that it's possible and actually relatively easy and inexpensive to appear more youthful. Is your posture good? Are you physically fit? Is your hair nicely cut and groomed? Are you wearing current clothing? Basically, you want your age to recede as an issue, not become the issue. Another thing I learned is that people are willing to forgive...
...lines at the end. Though it took over an hour—and three selections from Wagner operas—for the BCO to open up, its performance of the “Enigma” Variations under Hangen’s direction revealed a dynamism that will hopefully appear more as the season progresses.—Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...
...even less likely to contribute troops and treasure to a war that seems, on its face, less threatening to the West by the day. Al-Qaeda has so far failed to replicate the devastating attacks of 9/11, and low-intensity efforts to keep Osama bin Laden on the run appear to have been effective. With the ebbing of public support for the war, and with casualties and costs reaching record levels, world leaders and military commanders are now clutching for solutions and exits, including possible power-sharing deals with Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents. Kai Eide, the U.N. special envoy...
...that imitates the sound of water flushing - presumably to disguise any other sounds emanating from the bathroom. But the newer model has a sound system that accommodates an SD memory card, and comes preprogrammed with 18 soundscapes. Some of them - the pounding of the ocean, the Lite FM jazz - appear to be designed to promote meditation. Others - classical music, running water, classical music played over running water - appear to be inspirational. Still others - there's a sort of marching tune in there - are more of the get-on-with-it variety...
Chilling out is no mean feat for traders and investors these days, though; they appear to see panic selling as the better option. On Friday, Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 7.19%, while trading in Australia shot down 8.2%. Japan's Nikkei index dropped 9.62%, bringing its total loss for the week to 24%. Even before Asia's miserable day was over, European markets gave new force to the glumfest, opening with plunges near or in double digits. By day's end, those declines had been scaled back to 8.85% on London's FTSE 100, 7.7% on Paris...