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...Like the Taurus, the Explorer has been a Ford flagship, going on to become the best-selling SUV of all time and the icon of the automotive decade defined by these gas-guzzling kings of the road. Ford has also become something of a flagship car company, navigating the new economy skillfully, progressively and profitably while avoiding some of the exploding-gas-tank embarrassments that have plagued rival GM. Now it's got to keep the bloom on the rose and its SUVs flying off the lots...
RETIRED. JERRY WEST, 62, revered L.A. Lakers icon who netted seven NBA titles during his 40-year career as player and executive; in Los Angeles. Silhouetted in the NBA logo, the 14-time All-Star guard was nicknamed "Mr. Clutch" for his last-second heroics...
...sure if I agree with In-N-Out's large and enthusiastic following, who consider it one of the de rigueur stops on any SoCal trip, but I was certainly not dissatisfied, with the possible exception of the fries. But an icon is an icon, and the place, as Al Gore might say, is definitely its own burger joint: On the way out, a table of six diners of indeterminate ethnicity (the place definitely looked like America, as Mr. Clinton would say) waved to me. Would I take their picture? "There are no In-N-Outs in England...
...sure if I agree with In-N-Out's large and enthusiastic following, who consider it one of the de rigueur stops on any SoCal trip, but I was certainly not dissatisfied, with the possible exception of the fries. But an icon is an icon, and the place, as Al Gore might say, is definitely its own burger joint: On the way out, a table of six diners of indeterminate ethnicity (the place definitely looked like America, as Mr. Clinton would say) waved to me. Would I take their picture? "There are no In-N-Outs in England...
...history of the British Open. They stayed for a glimpse of golfing puissance--and to see a reflection of themselves. In an era defined by placid prosperity and cross-cultural, NASDAQ-obsessed Generation Y geeks who went to Stanford, it is only a minor coincidence that the national icon is a 24-year-old multiracial golfer who "plays around in the market" and could be worth $1 billion by the time he's 30 and was geeky enough to be nicknamed Urkel by his college teammates--at Stanford...