Word: elders
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...Bush does not voluntarily tell his son George W. Bush what he should do on Iraq or anything else more profound than a dockside suggestion like "Try this new lure to hook the stripers." The father would consider it an insult to his son's abilities. Besides, the elder Bush has told almost anybody willing to listen that the world of power and technology has moved beyond him. "I'm not plugged...
...while McDavitt’s progress is a big boost to the Crimson, equally favorable news is her sister Jen McDavitt’s arrival at Harvard. The presence of the younger McDavitt, a much sought-after recruit from the U-18 U.S. national team, and her now-healthy elder sister should bring returns far beyond what either of them could achieve by themselves...
...doors briefings and remain unconvinced of the imminent danger. NATO members and Arab allies have been openly skeptical of the case for going to war; Germany's Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has made rejection of any U.S. "adventure" in Iraq a central plank of his reelection campaign. And South African elder statesman Nelson Mandela this week branded Washington's Iraq policy a "threat to world peace...
...there for a while," she says. The endless phone calls from the media, the airline, the flight attendants' union and the FBI further upset him, but Ian refused to discuss any of it. "Only recently has he told friends what I did," Jones says. Moutardier's 27-year-old elder son Oscar cried when he heard about the incident, but Patrice tried to act as if nothing had happened. Then his grades plunged from A-plus to F. "Finally he told me he didn't want to show emotion because he was afraid it wouldn't help me to recover...
...notify everyone." Days later al-Rasheed surrendered to Saudi officials in Riyadh. His father Abdulaziz Saud al-Rasheed told the Associated Press he had urged the young man, who he said was in Egypt when the bulletin was first issued last Tuesday, to turn himself in to authorities. The elder al-Rasheed called his son a peaceful person who "has nothing to do with terror networks." --By Rebecca Winters