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...yesterday, two weeks after its 121st birthday, the tree had become an Arboretum legend...
...give up a lot of your personal life," Mayberry said with a sigh. "You get home at 11 p.m. one night and find out that you missed your mother's birthday...Friends soon begin to drift away...
...February of 1954, thanks to an accelerated school program rather than any brilliance on my part, I graduated from Morris High School two months short of my 17th birthday. Except for a certain facility in unloading prams at Sickser's, a neighborhood store where I worked part time, I had not yet excelled at anything. I was the "good kid," the "good worker," nothing more. I did well enough at Morris to win a letter for track, but after a while I found slogging cross-country through Van Cortlandt Park boring, and so I quit. I switched...
...focus can make him come across as machinelike in his detachment. When a visitor to his office noted that Buffett had no stock terminal or computer, the billionaire replied that none was necessary: "I am a computer," he said. Buffett's son Peter recalls giving his father a birthday card and feeling dismayed when "he just sort of opened it and closed it--he read it that fast. I guess I was waiting for some response...
...Democrats, who have seen this coming, are using the 30th anniversary of Medicare to launch their pre-emptive strike. "I got the message of the 1994 election," Clinton declared at a birthday rally, "and I'm not going to let the government mess with your Medicare." Again and again, the President poked at the soft spots in the G.O.P. numbers, charging that the $270 billion taken out of Medicare would be used to pay for the G.O.P.'s $245 billion in tax cuts "for people who don't need it." Gingrich replied that Clinton was trying to scare senior citizens...