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...more elaborate than a note dashed off to loved ones from a deathbed, an ethical will, sometimes called a personal legacy, is proving especially popular among baby boomers as they begin contemplating their mortality in earnest. A mini-industry has sprung up to help those seeking a bit of emotional immortality. Fancy binders with silk-moire linings and archival paper are now available. How-to workshops abound, as do websites and consultants who will preserve the bequest on videotape...
...interrupts herself with deep, rolling spasms of laughter. Whether the subject is her tendency to forget lyrics while performing, her lack of time to devote to a boyfriend or her profound inability to play guitar, every utterance arrives with its own disruptive laugh track. Then there are the pauses--earnest, eyes-drifting-into-future-space jobs that can stretch 10 or 15 seconds. Thus a typical Beyonce sentence goes, "As far as acting ... I want to ... hmm ... play some kind of a ... like a ... a dark character? Even though ... no ... I don't know!" Then: "Aaah...
...Ellison? The Oracle chief, 58, can't deny he's having fun. "I love flying planes and racing boats," he says. "This is more challenging." But at the same time, he insists, he is deadly earnest about PeopleSoft--and adds that other similar offers may be on the way. "The industry went a little mad over information technology; now we have to adjust," Ellison says. "Companies are going to get gobbled up, absolutely...
Then, negotiations over what by all accounts will be massive development expected redefine an entire Boston neighborhood will begin in earnest...
...review did not begin in earnest until Graham’s official appointment in August. And HDS professors and administrators note that it has been difficult to accomplish anything at a school that has seen three deans in four years...