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...stewardship of lowlier Scottish teams is a running riot of flying teacups, brawls and spats over petty cash. Such revelations as there are in The Boss are more storms in teacups. Ferguson's tendency to steer transfer-seeking players toward his son Jason's soccer agency seems a relatively mild strain of nepotism for the modern game. And news that Ferguson tried to cobble together a consortium to buy the club to stave off a bid by Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB will likely cement him more strongly still in the hearts of the estimated 50 million Manchester United fans worldwide...
Nine months ago, the appointment of Tom Ridge as Homeland Security czar was billed as the shake-up Washington needed. So far, he has been more of a mild foot stamp than an earthquake. Instead of real reform, the Administration has resorted to its usual mode: attempting to control warring satrapies from the White House. The remarkable aspect of last week's events in Washington was the unintended revelation that Rice is the true manager of counterterrorism policy. In the past, the National Security Council got into trouble when it adopted an operational role rather than one of analysis (think...
...person who isn't talking about Williams' memo is the man who wrote it. "I'm really sorry," Williams, 42, told a TIME reporter who approached him outside his North Phoenix, Ariz., home Saturday, "but I would get in trouble if I talked to you." He is a mild and graying man, but a transcript of his testimony from a terror-related trial in February provides a glimpse of his fierce work habits. After Sept. 11 proved him right, he didn't blow the whistle on the disturbing breakdown in the chain of intelligence that followed his memo. He didn...
...year-old sisters reported by Dr. Gary Small in The Memory Bible: An Innovative Strategy for Keeping Your Brain Young (Hyperion), due out next month. One sister lived a "hard life," smoking, drinking heavily, eating a high-fat diet and exercising little, if at all. She started experiencing mild forgetfulness at 77, followed by difficulty balancing her checkbook, completing crossword puzzles and addressing Christmas cards. Soon she developed Alzheimer's. The other twin was a social drinker who never smoked, adhered to a diet low in starches and animal fats, and exercised. She too began experiencing mild forgetfulness...
Some of us will go beyond the level of the second twin, to what is known as mild cognitive impairment, and some all the way to dementia, the most common form of which is Alzheimer's. But most of us won't--and need not. "People used to think that senility was a normal part of aging," says Small, a professor of psychiatry and aging at the University of California, Los Angeles. "Now we see it's a disease. If we all lived long enough, we'd all get Alzheimer's disease if we did nothing about it." The good...