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Former President George H.W. Bush is the only person on this planet who can casually prowl by jet, ship and train the upper reaches of power from London to Beijing, dine intimately with heads of state, call the President of the U.S. when he wants, e-mail any of 14 grandchildren about school and baseball ("Astros might go to the World Series"), talk details with a handyman making repairs on the house that has been his spiritual home for eight decades, track menacing chipmunks in the flower beds and then turn and embrace a visiting billionaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Former President's Mad Dash to 80 | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...made an impressive showing, though still came in a distant second to Bianca E. Richmond ’06 who managed to completely overtake them as she set a record setting pace in the Fox 1000. Richmond, having misplaced her shoes, her skirt and her shirt throughout her drunken prowl for a nice Fox boy to go home with, swears she circled campus, “like a billion times.” Now that’s a marathon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gossip Guy | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

...Games, Coton liked not only his obvious quickness and agility - a basketball-honed athleticism that allowed him to adjust to high and low shots - but also his lack of flourish, his no-nonsense ball distribution. Then last spring, disillusioned with World Cup hero Fabien Barthez and on the prowl, Coton watched a tape of Howard's recent performances that, by the end, had him perched on the edge of his chair. He found Ferguson and said, "You've got to see this." Coton didn't doubt that Howard was physically ready. In fact, he believed that, with the typical goalkeeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Yank In Manchester | 3/21/2004 | See Source »

...Luck Club and Rebecca Wells' Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: it celebrates the folksy wisdom of an older generation of men. The Girl Watchers Club is an informal cabal of men in their 70s and 80s who meet once a week to prowl yard sales and grouse about things "these days." These are men who grew up in the Depression and came of age on the battlefields of World War II. Their long, rich lives have taught them invaluable lessons about unfashionable things like "self-reliance, honest effort, commitment to ideals larger than themselves"--and precious little about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: You've Got Male | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

CHARLESTON, S.C.—His Panthers endangered, his political future in the balance, Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., bursts into Manny’s Bar at halftime Sunday night, clearly a man on the prowl...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ready To Campaign, Dems Head South | 2/5/2004 | See Source »

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