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...passed around the common house." But Russell has already put money down on a unit in Silver Sage because she feels she will have more in common with its residents than with her current neighbors, many of whom are young families "wondering where to find the next baby sitter and getting dinner on the table." At Silver Sage, by contrast, there are monthly meetings at which members discuss aging issues. "People are going to get sick and die, and we want to have a plan about how we as a community are going to embrace and support that," says Russell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Home Alone | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...authentic Stuart portrait of Kirkland shows half of the then-Harvard president’s body, with the sitter holding a Bible, according to a list of Stuart’s works published...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: President Kirkland Is Coming Home | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...items listed in the Stair Galleries auction was labeled “J.T. Kirkland.” And the figure in that portrait bears a striking resemblance to the sitter in American painter Gilbert Stuart’s 1816 portrait of then-Harvard President John Thornton Kirkland, Class of 1789. Though the auction house estimated a $200 to $400 price tag for the Kirkland portrait, the item ultimately sold...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray and Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Heisted Harvard Portrait Traced | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

...just when this sexual liberality looked imminent, or at least plausible, cinema boomeranged from a medium where adults could examine their passions to one where kids could get their thrills. Jaws, Star Warsand their countless progeny made the movie house a glorified baby sitter; and not just film sex but film romance came close to disappearing on the big screen. In mainstream movies, words got gamier, pictures more inhibited. A comedy called Meet the Fockerscould get a PG-13 rating (and clean up at the box office), but a comedy in which you would meet actual... fockers... was impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the F---ers | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...course. Although two weeks into it they were all gone. We brought a baby sitter with us, and I think she was eating them for dessert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEO Speaks: CLIF BAR: True Green | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

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