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...think, as was pointed out by many of the question askers, that he ignored a lot of the significant issues facing America today,” said Sebastian T. Abbot, a first-year student at the Kennedy School of Government, after the speech...
...Brunstad's 70th, the weather was too bad to attempt the swim, but three days later, slathered in lanolin and petroleum jelly, he slipped into the water at 9:13 a.m. at Abbot's Cliff, south of Dover, England, and emerged on Sangatte Beach, south of Calais, France, 15 hours and 59 minutes later. Every half hour along the way, he was thrown a nutrient drink. Every two hours, he took a swish of Tom's of Maine mouthwash to rinse the salt water out of his mouth. With the current, Brunstad estimates he swam a total of 32 miles...
According to Abbot, men who were 71 to 93 years old and walked less than one-fourth of a mile per day were nearly twice as likely to develop dementia as those who walked more than two miles...
...might have attended. King, whose most famous stand-up comedy routines critiqued suburban life, succeeded because he was brutally honest, hardworking and loyal. His greatest attachment was to the Friars Club, of which he was a member for more than 50 years, succeeding Frank Sinatra in 1997 as Abbot. Although it rarely showed on his face, his love of all things Friarly--not just the roasts he often hosted but the everyday bonding over lunches and cigars--was contagious, and he saved an organization whose average age, when he took over, was often described as "dead." The club...
...were so poor they resorted to selling their own blood might make for bad press. And as the country's propaganda chief he had the power to order a nationwide news blackout. Today, the only real movement in and out of the shuttered complex is that of the resident abbot?a friend of Li's, according to local guide Fu Rongguang?who drives around the countryside in a chauffeured black Cadillac. To the rest of the world, the buddha might as well not exist?except that it can be plainly seen from miles away...