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Robert Byrd, 88, became the longest-serving U.S. Senator ever last week, passing Strom Thurmond's mark of 17,326 days. The West Virginian has wielded huge influence in Washington for decades...
...monarch to be perfect; it's his job to keep his imperfections to himself. Thailand's 78-year-old King, the longest-ruling royal in the world, has done this with particular success. As we watched the old-fashioned titles and costumes assemble in Bangkok last week, it was possible to speak, unlike Richard II, of the life-not death-of kings and kingship...
...School's open campus--the perfect time to stroll to Extreme Pizza on nearby Shattuck Avenue, grab a Coke, order some pizza heaped with sausage and sit in the California sun. But in Berkeley High's lunchroom, lines of students are waiting patiently for--get this--cafeteria food. The longest line--now get this--is for salad. "This is only my second time eating school lunch," says junior Fennis Brown, 17. "I've always been put off by cafeteria food. But when I saw a friend eating it, I thought, That looks like it could come from any good restaurant...
...been a surprisingly large number of cases decided with no dissent or virtually no dissent,” Fallon said, but “the real test will come when they get to the late-term cases.” The most divisive decisions—which take the longest to reach—often arrive in June.‘A GREAT CONSUMER OF PEPTO BISMOL’Roberts arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1973, and, by all accounts, he had already adopted the firm, but not staunch, conservative beliefs that have defined his legal career.Friends...
...home, adding that it had been edited and shipped into production by the time she flew down to New York City in late December to take a photo with Welch, who was married at the time. After a lunch together, which in her words “was the longest in the history of mankind,” and dinner later that evening, Jack and the future Mrs. Welch realized their relationship was a romantic one.The next day, she called her boss Walter Kiechel ’68, editorial director of Harvard Business School Publications, to tell him that...