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...quarter-century of history together, a "long shadow," as Keith Richards says, "that we drag around"... The Stones still have the stamina, but there's always at least a hint of a strain in the music too, a self-consciousness about the energy, as if they were the oldest guys at the gym and trying to look good on the Nautilus. Rock 'n' roll may be their life--and their business. It may come naturally to them still, but it sure doesn't come easy. That's what's different. That old winning smugness--their magisterial self-assurance--is gone...
Scott Cleere was James’ oldest son. This was his first trip to Ground Zero...
...corporate problems were not as important as the simple matter of loving your neighbor. "We can't pass a law that says you'll love your neighbor like yourself," Bush said. "And we can't pass a law that says you will be honest." This has struck his oldest allies as odd. "The whole corporate-finance scandal plays to his sense of right and wrong," says one. "But how come...
Experts on bicultural adoptions have learned such lessons from years of experience. Susan Soon-keum Cox, 50, who works for Holt International, the oldest overseas-adoption agency in the U.S. and the organization that arranged her own adoption from South Korea in 1956, learned them firsthand. She was adopted by Oregon dairy farmers Marvin and Jane Gourley in the earliest wave of babies brought into American homes and hearts after the Korean War. The Gourleys dealt with their daughter's Asian identity in a way that reflected the thinking of the time: they loved her unconditionally and encouraged...
...Administration's energy plan would make us more dependent on foreign oil in 2020 than we are today and would increase global-warming pollution more than 30%. Each new fleet of cars and trucks is using more fuel than the one that came before. Our oldest and most polluting power plants are exempt from clean-air standards...