Word: lifelong
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...Harvard, Nair discovered a burgeoning passion for filmmaking that ripened into a lifelong pursuit...
DIED. SAM DASH, 79, former chief Watergate counsel, whose probe into the Oval Office's secret taping system helped set the stage for President Nixon's resignation; in Washington. The lifelong Democrat later drafted the independent-counsel law and in the '90s advised counsel Kenneth Starr on the Whitewater investigation of President Clinton...
Together the books offer a yin-yang morality tale, with Brasco the straight arrow detailing how criminals conduct their craft and Hill the lifelong criminal attempting to straighten up and fly right. By virtue of its frank, confessional nature, Hill's story is more intimate and his prose more chewy; Brasco's is a thoughtful dissertation on wiseguyness. Both, however, are so crammed with revealing anecdotes, sick behavior and dark humor that you won't soon fuhgeddaboutem. --By Jeffrey Ressner
...very much doubt that those who don't want Thaksin's money care two hoots about his political record or the fact that he seems willing to invest Thai public funds in the club. What counts is that there is a local alternative on the table, from a lifelong fan who worked his way up from bricklayer to construction magnate. When they have a choice, it turns out, people will sometimes reject those associated with the glitzy world of global capitalism in favor of the familiar. That, you could argue, is what happened when Indians turned back to the Congress...
...Superman story: he's blocked. "There's no access point to the character for me," he complains. "Too much about him makes no sense." A limited-run comic called Secret Identity tells the story of a Superman who lives in the real world, our world, and who plays a lifelong chess game with the government and the media to keep his true nature hidden. What could be more modern than a hero with an obsessive need for privacy...