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...respond when people tell you that you look like Jon Bon Jovi...
...around for a long time, in and out of office. He won the 2014 Winter Olympics for Sochi, Russia; he went to Guatemala and spoke English to an international crowd. He is an influence on all points of the globe--whether for good or bad, time will tell...
Celebrating these occasions serially is hard enough; handling them simultaneously makes you dizzy. Red-letter days are our measuring sticks, the fixed points from one year to the next by which we can tell how much we've changed. They let us gauge the function or dysfunction of the clan, see how our hopes ferment, our kids grow and ripen. Little sister wears big sister's Easter dress from two years ago, and you suspect she's going to end up taller. The cub scouts in the annual Memorial Day parade are eagles now. So in the spirit of holiday...
...listen to what each party says about the other, you would get a very different impression. To hear the Democrats tell it, the Republicans are happy with the health-care system we have: all they do is stand in the way of Democratic improvements...
...that he had a choice. Former Citigroup chief Sandy Weill, who created the financial colossus by merging his Travelers Group with Citicorp in 1998, had traveled to Saudi Arabia to tell Citi's biggest individual shareholder, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, that the other Prince had to go. Alwaleed reportedly wanted Weill to return to the helm, but there was little appetite for that on Citi's board...