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...Well, family and culture are both forms of the endless relay race. A father's feelings when the torch is passed may sometimes be a little mixed. I mean, it's one thing for Justin to beat me at any reference to contemporary music, movies, literature, or general day-to-day hipness. He does that all the time. Justin is a beginning writer and filmmaker. As for me, there is no one on the planet less hip. I am your father's Oldsmobile. I am, in fact, your great grandfather's Studebaker, a crock from the Pleistocene. I am embarrassingly...
...Indeed, many have turned to GE. W. James McNerny Jr., one of GE's top three contenders for CEO, was snatched up by 3M when GE handed the torch to Jeffrey R. Immelt, former president and CEO of GE Medical Systems...
...pipe dream, convinced that building a luge run and hosting Lycra-clad skaters would somehow translate into a big pot of gold. A bullet-train line was built from Tokyo, hotels went up, airport runways were laid down. In all, nearly $1 billion was spent. But once the Olympic torch was extinguished, Nagano's post-Olympic boom failed to materialize. The city's downtown looks deserted and there's plenty of room at the local inns and hotels. "Now that we have the bullet trains," the Governor says, "people can come from Tokyo and go back home in the same...
...Jersey businessman who has pleaded guilty in the case. Chang told investigators he lavished suits tailored in Italy, envelopes of cash, earrings for a girlfriend and a used Rolex watch on Torricelli, according to the New York Times. Still, his colleagues are not yet ready for "the Torch" to be extinguished. They have struggled to keep him as part of their united front against Bush's legislative agenda. With a 50-50 Senate, Democrats can't afford to lose even a maverick...
...meeting also was a symbolic “passing of the torch,” as Rudenstine introduced President-elect Lawrence H. Summers to the Harvard alums, most of whom Summers knew from his days in the Treasury Department...