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...elder statesman of the unit is senior Charles Baakel, a power back with 154 yards on 50 career carries. He’ll be counted on to shepherd the young runners through the ins and outs of Harvard’s offensive attack despite being a little banged up after preseason camp and seeing no carries in the opener...
...dissenting generation. In an irony both would appreciate, DVD sets of all their HBO concerts will be released on Sept. 25. George Carlin: All My Stuff shows Carlin progress from counterculture provocateur (the seven words you can't say on TV) to curmudgeonly uncle to angry village elder railing about war and golf. Robert Klein: The HBO Specials 1975-2005 rolls out the groundbreaking, brainy, improv-based style that has influenced nearly every stand-up who has followed...
...wants to go home to Panama. He says the former strongman, who now walks with a stoop and is 73 (or 69 according to the birth date cited by Assistant U.S. Attorney Pat Sullivan in court documents), wants to spend his final days with his grandchildren as an "elder statesman." Rubino wonders why his client can't just go home to face the music. "He committed the heinous crime of purchasing an apartment in Paris," Rubino, says in a mocking tone. "That's more important than murder and kidnapping?" Noriega's POW status would end if he sets foot...
Sullivan is the scion of a local political dynasty that has continuously occupied a city council seat since 1936. His uncle, Edward J. Sullivan, held the clerk of the courts job from 1958 to 2006, when he was replaced by his nephew. The elder Sullivan died two weeks...
...Iraqis, callous disregard is pretty much exactly what they have come to expect from their politicians. Some of the most prominent Iraqi politicians spend little time in the country, much less in parliament. Egregious absenteeism cuts across sectarian and ethnic lines: perennial no-shows include Shi'ite elder Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Sunni leader Saleh Mutlak and secular stalwarts Iyad Allawi and Adnan Pachachi. (Al-Jaafari and Allawi, both former Prime Ministers, are trying to unseat the incumbent, Nouri al-Maliki.) "There's no point in going to parliament," Allawi told TIME recently. "Nothing important is done there anyway...