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...White House will celebrate its 200th birthday on Nov. 1, and right now the White House Historical Association is searching for someone rotund enough to play the role of President John Adams, the first President to take up residence there. All he has to do is climb into an antique carriage on Pennsylvania Avenue around 1 p.m. that day and make his way to the White House to commemorate the fateful first entry, which at the time was barely noted. The original Adams had some doubts about the place even before he left Philadelphia; the mansion...
...this fiercely independent man was becoming totally reliant on others. He needed Debbie to help him shower and dress, to bring him food. A stair glide was installed to enable him to go downstairs during the day, but he needed her assistance to hobble over to it and climb on. Debbie rarely left the house except to drive Dan to his medical appointments. In the last weeks before her husband died, she acknowledged without resentment that "I don't have a life. Everything revolves around...
After four years of being constantly reminded that they have studied under the best teachers and have had the opportunity to interact with the most important leaders of their generation, the reality is that many Harvard undergraduates do go on to fill the corridors and climb the ladders of power. And who knows, one day a few of them may even be invited to speak to students at the world's most prestigious university...
...Franklin suspects his divorce hit his kids hard. But he also sees a genetic component in depression. He has heard that his father, with whom he has no ties, once attempted to kill himself, but it never registered until now. Depression never held back Les Franklin during his climb out of poverty. "Did Jamon have it hard?" he asks rhetorically. "Come on, look at this house! I was an IBM executive! And now I'm concerned about affluent black kids. There are the same patterns you see in the white community; they have more idle time, more time to think...
...right, Tom Cruise won. His Mission: Impossible II coasted to an easy victory in the summer box-office race, with $213 million in domestic grosses. Cruise did what movie stars are supposed to do: climb a rockface, save the girl and the world and, in the process, make a bundle for himself and his backers. But take a look at the runners-up, and you will find a few surprises--unpleasant ones, for an industry that pays dearly for celebrity wattage to attract customers. The return on star investment is falling like a dotcom stock. Hollywood bosses have to wonder...