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...that's changing. Empty nesters increasingly view the housing market--even with a recent hike in federal interest rates--as a safe bet. For them, the term boomer might as well refer to housing boomers, who are building their own personal retirement homes instead of parking the cash in the stock market. "These people have the desire--and the money--to trade in the house that they lived in for 30 or 40 years and move into a home that has all the bells and whistles they've ever imagined," says Leslie Marks, executive director of the National Association...
Will the Baby Boomer's Monte Carlo stash someday rival the $60 million Borg is alleged to have there, or will he become just another tennis courtier, serving (and volleying to) its true monarchs? The problem of predicting arises from the ambiguities inherent in any Wimbledon victory and from the mysteries inherent in reading any adolescent's psyche. Since the U.S. Open ceased using grass, and since the major players pretty much abandoned the Australian Open, the computer rankings on which Wimbledon's seedings are based do not have adequate input regarding abilities on what is now the exotic tennis...
...Though Lulu's adventures influenced the entire baby boomer generation of underground comix artists, the works have been mostly unavailable to new generations until now. This outrageous absence has finally been rectified now that Dark Horse has committed to reprinting the series as competitively priced $10 black and white paperbacks collections. Volume two of the projected 17 books, which appear bi-monthly and will reprint all the comics through issue #85, has just been released. For the same price as a manga book, "Little Lulu" draws you into a world that remains as funny and fresh as it was fifty...
...roofs of houses." This is a familiar image to members of Bush's, and my own, baby-boom generation-incendiary idealism, soldiers torching straw huts with Zippo lighters in Vietnam, "destroying a village in order to save it." Bush, in the end, is a classic boomer. His was a speech that could only have been delivered by a member of our exorbitantly messianic generation. Our rhetoric has always been the rhetoric of freedom, framed by Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, which marshaled the mighty word as frequently as Bush did and was delivered, appropriately...
Experts attribute the rise to keen competition for a limited supply of external candidates to fulfill the increasingly complex post of president. The retirement of baby-boomer administrators is constraining the candidate pool for top university posts...