Word: grandchildren
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When she died on Jan. 22, after years of failing health but at the remarkable age of 104, she left behind five children, 28 grandchildren--and a motto as legacy to all who mourned her passing: ``I know not age, nor weariness, nor defeat.'' The boast is testament to her ability to craft legend out of the exigencies of real life. Of course, Rose Kennedy knew age and weariness and defeat. Many times over. She outlived four of her children and a husband who loved and humiliated her. She endured the haunting gossip and relentless scrutiny accorded all her family...
Left behind in the former heartland of European Jewry were 2 million, the dim shadow of a once vibrant community. Many were the elderly who could not face or afford the rigors of emigration. But most were the assimilated children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren--generations so thoroughly absorbed and secularized that their Jewishness seemed to consist of little more than distinctive surnames and distant memories...
Edouard Balladur had left nothing to chance. Everything, from the flowers on his desk to the conspicuously placed photos of his grandchildren, was calculated to project the image of a national father figure. Though there was little suspense--his intentions had long been clear--Balladur's nationally televised address was the biggest political event of the new year. It marked the Gaullist Prime Minister's official entry into a presidential race that could make him the successor to Socialist Francois Mitterrand next May. Speaking from his gilded office, Balladur, 65, promised to run a ``positive, serene and optimistic'' campaign...
...cost Republicans control of the Senate in 1986. In an interview with TIME, Kerrey would say only that if Gingrich is willing to duck Social Security's problems because they are 25 years away, "don't give any speeches saying how concerned you are about your children and grandchildren." He added that Gingrich, "like many Democrats, calculates that he can't tell people the truth about Social Security...
...going to become, at what point to do they set off a bidding war?" says TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. "It's similar to what happened in Ronald Reagan's first year, when he forced the Democrats to up the ante on tax cuts; as a result, our grandchildren will be paying it off. I think the Democrats are very afraid of that, but they've got to respond...