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DIED. VIRGINIA MAYO, 84, Hollywood blond of the 1940s and '50s who inspired the Sultan of Morocco to write her a fan letter in which he called her "tangible proof of the existence of God"; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. She played opposite stars from Bob Hope (The Princess and the Pirate) to James Cagney (White Heat) but won her greatest critical acclaim as Dana Andrews' cheating wife in the Oscar-winning World War II drama The Best Years of Our Lives...
...choices on offer were very marked and this led to different factions. At Monday's meeting, people were not saying, 'We want you to paper over the cracks.' They were saying, 'There's not much difference between the two of you, so stop behaving as if there is.'" Bob Worcester, chairman of the polling organization MORI, says this perception is not shared by the public, who see Brown as "a socialist wolf in sheep's clothing." But this is not necessarily an electoral disadvantage: Labour's current 5% lead over the Tories under Blair would increase to 13% if Brown...
...bedrooms, paralyzed by indecision. "Legally, they're adults, but they're on the threshold, the doorway to adulthood, and they're not going through it," Apter says. The percentage of 26-year-olds living with their parents has nearly doubled since 1970, from 11% to 20%, according to Bob Schoeni, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan...
...Condi Rice and Bob Zoellick will form one of the really strong, capable foreign policy teams our country has ever had,” Bush said at a press conference on Friday...
...DIED. BOB MATSUI, 63, long-serving Democratic Congressman from Sacramento, Calif., whose humanity and level-headedness won him fans on both sides of the aisle; of pneumonia brought on by a rare, recently diagnosed bone-marrow disease; in Bethesda, Md. Confined at a California internment camp with his family and other Japanese Americans at the start of World War II, he fought for war reparations and had been expected to help lead the campaign against the President's proposed revamping of Social Security...