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Churchill is reputed to have said, "Who would want to live to be 90? Everyone who is 89." We're a greedy lot. I'm not saying this out of braggadocio. I don't fear death. I really don't. My wife of 60 years, Ida, is gone. That's a gap, to put it mildly. How does it feel to be 89? Like 89! [Laughs.] My hearing--off and on, mostly off. I still do the treadmill, every third day, 15 minutes, and then the Exercycle and the dumbbells. But so far as the actual going, I really...
...closel y on the heels of the BSE epidemic. What would happen if these diseases spread to sub-Saharan Africa? Here, there are few slaughterhouses, but where they do exist, blood and waste run into open waterways from which the towns and villages take their drinking water. MOSES IDA-MICHAELS Lagos, Nigeria...
Democracy must invent something more intelligent. No Electoral College should be able to override the popular vote. The U.S. should provide a real model for democracy. As things stand now, millions of Nigerians believe that there was vote rigging in this election. MOSES IDA-MICHAELS Abuja, Nigeria...
...result, lurching haphazardly between melodrama and MTM-lite comedy, is not just inferior but unsettlingly wrong, like a beloved relative reanimated as a zombie. Moore and Harper click instantly--Rhoda might well have been cryogenically preserved since 1978, and shows charming touches of her mother Ida when hectoring her own daughter--but they're burdened with sentimentality and limp one-liners. The Mary we see here shows glimpses of her self-effacing but strong self, yet at other times, incongruously, seems to have become a helpless uptown lady-who-lunches and slips into self-help-speak like...
...Gilbert and Sullivan need a hit. Princess Ida is just not doing the sort of business they're used to. But Sullivan (Corduner) wants to write something more serious than comic operettas. And Gilbert (Broadbent) keeps trying to recycle stale story lines that his collaborator (and the critics) dismiss...