Word: elders
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...centralization of all these small towns." Apart from a pub, police station and school that service a largely Aboriginal population, there are few jobs. "I've lived here all my life, so it's not so good," says beanie-wearing Ronald Hogarth, 50. "Well, the pub's good." Elder Lorraine Williams, 48, calls it "a sleepy little town" whose main store recently closed down because there were "not enough customers." So sleepy, in fact, that written across a soccer ball found abandoned by the road is the instruction: kick da f---king thing...
...Rutgers University School of Law and did some local acting, and mom, a therapist. "We went out to dinner, and we never cared where we ate. My family was all about storytelling and making each other laugh," he says of his parents before their divorce. Braff's two elder brothers have also become writers. Joshua wrote a novel about Jersey, The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, which will come out in September. And Adam was hired with Zach to co-write an adaptation of the kids' book Andrew Henry's Meadow, about a boy who escapes suburbia by building...
...also take other measures. Sometimes it's easiest and necessary to hire an independent local accountant to help oversee bill payment and money allocation. That advice comes from Diedre Wachbrit, a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. Many accountants now have elder-care practices for situations just like this. Having a professional track your mother-in-law's expenses and pay her bills can help your husband avoid some ugly wrangling with his sister...
...brass of a big organization is charged with gross errors. The bosses circle the wagons until public clamor forces an inquiry by an elder statesman, who confirms the mistakes and many other management lapses but says they were the result of misjudgment rather than malign intent. Should the brass resign? In January, when the organization was the BBC and Lord Hutton concluded it had violated journalistic standards by accusing the government of sexing up the case for war in Iraq, Tony Blair was all for the departure of the BBC's chairman and Director General. Last week, though, he felt...
...star of the victorious 2000 squad. "Now I feel it." You would think he'd be used to the pressure by now; his father, Zoltán, won a silver medal with the 1972 team and coached the national squad in the 1980s. The elder Kásás is confident that the Hungarians will prevail. "At least five players on this team have been together since 1994," he says. "They not only know how to play together, they know what the others are thinking." The core of the team is composed of three Sydney veterans. In addition...