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...world's oldest living person, Yone Minagawa, below, a Japanese woman who gained the honor when the previous record holder died...
...luxury of being the majority backer of his plays, which nowadays cost around $800,000 to mount. Nor will the show's fate much affect his power: his record is so strong that his name appears above the title on many of his plays and movies, a rare honor for a playwright and an all but unprecedented one for a screenwriter who is not also a director. Virtually anything Simon writes will be produced?if he permits it. His collaborator on nine films, Producer Ray Stark, says Simon "will bring in the most wonderful material and then, two weeks later...
LOVIE SMITH, coach of the Chicago Bears, on becoming one of the first two African-American coaches to make it to the Super Bowl, an honor he shares with game-day opponent Tony Dungy, coach of the Indianapolis Colts...
...reach for the classics, I think, when we are uncertain of our own bearings. We imagine that the Greeks and Romans knew what stars to steer by, that virtues such as honor and bravery, nobility and loyalty, guided their behavior. We think that the classical world was sharply defined, immune to the little cowardices of doubt. We would like the comfort of thinking that our times can be like that too. "This administration ... divides the world into friends and foes, and the foes are incorrigible and not redeemable," veteran Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross told the New York Times recently...
...Britain are pressured into matches they don't want. The British government's Forced Marriage Unit deals with more than 250 cases a year, but Sanghera's group, Derby-based Karma Nirvana, alone takes on seven new ones a week. Police in Britain are investigating scores of suspected "honor killings" of women resisting arranged marriages. Tellingly, the suicide rate among young South Asian females is three times the national average...