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...good friendship with a poet named George (a wise and excellent Dennis Hopper). Polymathically, he has art, music, literature and photography to fill such idle hours as remain to him. And girls, of course - notably his students, whom he never tries to bed until he has given them their final grades. As far as he (and we) can see, he could go on like this for years to come...
...Still, it pays to break the news of a child's problem gently. Following the advice of numerous obesity experts, the Department of Health has decided that the name of the final, portliest category - very overweight - was a more sensible choice than obese. "Preliminary findings of the survey suggest that many people who would be defined clinically as obese find the use of the term obese highly offensive and would stop listening to further advice...
...again for an occasion that neither would need a diary entry to remember. Just 12 hours before Beijing kicked off the 2008 Summer Olympics, father introduced son at a dedication ceremony for a sprawling new U.S. embassy complex. The Beijing Games was the last stop on President Bush's final tour of East Asia before leaving office in January. And while the trip offered opportunities to marvel at China's accomplishments, Bush was focused not on past triumphs, but on present dangers. In Seoul, he met with President Lee Myung Bak to plot the next phase in North Korea...
During the European basketball championships last October, Spaniards exiting Madrid metro stations encountered Nike ads featuring Pau Gasol and his Spanish teammates with the caption: "Being Spanish is no longer an excuse, it's a responsibility." Spain played poorly in the final game, losing by a point to Russia. But that was a year ago. Today, as you tally up Gasol's appearance with the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals in June, the Spanish soccer team's victory in the European Cup, Rafael Nadal's Wimbledon defeat of Roger Federer, and Carlos Sastre's triumph at the Tour...
...special place in his heart. He's written about how time spent there with his family recharges his batteries and gives him perspective. He will need it: after the coming week off, there will be little sleep through the naming of his Vice President, the Democratic Convention and the final two-month sprint to Election Day. And surely the Obama campaign won't mind some relaxed snapshots of the candidate partaking in typical summer-vacation activities - bodysurfing, playing with his girls, eating ice cream - especially at a time when the GOP is doing its best to portray...