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...runners weren't immune from the entrepreneurial onslaught. They had no sooner finished the race than they were given the opportunity of a life time to buy certificates declaring in fancy letters on parchment and signed by witnesses that they had completed the Boston Marathon. For only...
Torn like a page of parchment, Townshend brooded about all of this, decided that he was finally going to say, "Right, that's it: The Who becomes a business." He expected the others to turn him down. Instead, sensing that he was in a state of crisis, they supported him. The strongest backing, to Townshend's considerable surprise, came from Daltrey. "He said to me, 'I don't care whether we tour or make records or don't make records. I just always want to be able to work with you, always be able to sing your songs and, above...
Most important, the judges are bound to uphold the Constitution. But that is not an immutable piece of parchment that judges can apply to laws like litmus paper. It is rather a set of principles that have proved enduring partly because they are flexible. When the original Constitution was written in Hamilton's day, the U.S. was mostly a nation of small farmers who would have fallen on their pitchforks at the thought of today's complicated modern society, or of the broad role that Government plays in running it. By giving the Constitution new meaning, the judiciary...
Whatever else may be missing in the People's Republic, China and the Chinese more than compensate the open-minded visitor. The Foreign Friend leaves with indelible memories effaces and places, good manners and memorable food, candid conversation and cultural confrontation. A jumble of vignettes on a parchment scroll...
...translated into nearly 60 languages), Singer remains a uniquely accessible celebrity. The phone rings constantly. Friends, fans and total strangers turn up at the roomy West Side Manhattan apartment that he shares with Alma, his wife for 38 years. They find a slightly stooped, nearly bald host with fine, parchment-like skin and strikingly pale blue eyes. He looks frail until he talks or moves, scuttling be tween sofa, telephone and front door with the vitality of a chipmunk...