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When it came time to pass the baton to her son Donald Graham in 1991, she did it seamlessly and gracefully, which is not always the case with dynastic successions. She still asked the first question at editorial lunches. But she kept out of her son's hair by spending six solid years writing her book. If there was any interference, it took place during their weekly Sunday walks around Dumbarton Oaks. By then, an artificial hip was slowing her. She never complained about getting old. At parties she would plant herself on a chair and let the room come...
...violence at anticapitalist demonstrations can't be attributed solely to radical groups like AFA. Sebastian Stein, 19, of Bad Munstereifel, Germany, says he went to Sweden on a fishing trip and thought the "Reclaim the City" rally in Goteborg would make for an exciting diversion. But when baton-wielding police moved in to break up the march, Stein shouted something and threw a rock at them; he was shot in the leg and arrested. He now faces up to three years in Swedish prison. "Nothing was prepared here," his lawyer, Claes Ostlund, says...
...When it came time to pass the baton to her son Donald Graham in 1991, she did it seamlessly and gracefully, which is not always the case with dynastic successions. She still asked the first question at editorial lunches. But she kept out of her son's hair by spending six solid years writing her book. If there was any interference, it took place during their weekly Sunday walks around Dumbarton Oaks. By then, an artificial hip was slowing her. She never complained about getting old. At parties she would plant herself on a chair and let the room come...
...drawn portrait of a wannabe hipster who hangs around black musicians (titled "You're Too Hip, Baby," its milieu may be dated, but its message is timeless). The most significant entry is his pioneering work of new Journalism, "Twirling at Old Miss," in which ever-libidinous Ter visits a baton-twirling academy in Mississippi (where, curiously, the girls all seem to talk like Candy Christian) mere days after Faulkner's funeral. His novelist's eye colors his perceptions: "Next to the benches, and about three feet apart, are two public drinking fountains, and I notice that the one boldly marked...
...Five years ago, when I began my college search, one of the most important criteria for me was a sense of school spirit and community. Coming from the South and having performed as the baton twirler with a high school band of 250 members, I was used to a lot of school spirit. On game days, athletes wore their team jerseys around campus. This is not to say that athletics reigned supreme at my high school; in fact, we were consistently below average in football and basketball. Yet there was tremendous school pride, and the games were packed with fans...