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...reached into reserves of fear and rage that many other rock musicians only pretend to possess. As both a head-banging rocker and the beseeching man-child who wrote, "See me, feel me/Touch me, heal me"--for Tommy, about a boy who has been molested--was Townshend making a lifelong reply to some primal outrage...
DIED. C. DOUGLAS DILLON, 93, well-connected Wall Street financier, diplomat and lifelong Republican who served as Treasury Secretary under two Democratic Presidents (Kennedy and Johnson) and ambassador to France under a Republican (Eisenhower); in New York City. Dillon was an Under Secretary of State when he was tapped to lend bipartisan heft to J.F.K.'s Cabinet. At Treasury he advocated successfully for free trade and tax cuts and spearheaded Kennedy's economic-development program in Latin America. Although he was born to wealth and influence (he was the scion of the international banking house Dillon, Read & Co. and enjoyed...
...page really took place. Study after study has shown that genes can affect behavior and mental life. Identical twins separated at birth (who share their genes but not their environment) are similar in their intellectual talents, their personality traits (such as introversion, conscientiousness and antagonism), their average level of lifelong happiness and such personal quirks as giggling incessantly or flushing the toilet both before and after using it. Identical twins (who share all their genes) are more similar than fraternal twins (who share half their genes). And biological siblings (who also share half their genes) are more similar, of course...
...lifelong hawk who has fought for Israel since 1948, Sharon has reinvented himself as a centrist, at least by his Likud Party's standard. But he hasn't forgotten how to fight. As over 400 Israelis died in terrorist attacks in 2002, Sharon's soldiers killed more than 1,000 Palestinians--some combatants but many civilians too. He came to power promising peace, but Sharon knows best how to wage...
...Treasury Department during the Clinton Administration. Bush advisers say Stephen Friedman, who co-chaired Goldman at Rubin's side, is being courted heavily for the NEC job. But candidates for other spots on the economic team have also been sought among nonfinancial companies. Though Bush recognizes that his lifelong skepticism of Wall Street may have shaken its faith in his policies, he has not lost his view that business leaders who borrow to build things, rather than those who do the lending, are the ones who know best how the real economy works...