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...next appointment arrived, so she stubbed out her cigarette and invited me inside the salon. As I was walking in, a distinguished older woman named Peggy Simpson was rising from one of the chairs, with her white hair immaculately coiffed. "I was leaning toward McCain," she told me, "until he said the other day that the economy is good." She was referring to a remark the candidate made as the Wall Street crisis was deepening: "The fundamentals of our economy are still strong." McCain quickly revised his statement to refer to the diligence and productivity of U.S. workers, but from...
...also made time to do interviews with more reporters than she could count, all while trying to cope with her emotions at the 10-year mark of her son's murder. As usual, Judy's strength was stirring. Like many gay men of my generation - I'm six years older than Matt would have been - I see her as a powerfully maternal figure...
...thus deserves all the honor and respect of the army in public life." In interviews, including with TIME, the blue-eyed lawyer adamantly denied any sympathy with Hitler's ideas and said that his comments had been taken out of context. But critics suspected him of consciously courting an older generation of ex- Nazis in Austria...
William A. Klemperer ’50, a professor emeritus and active tutor in biochemical sciences, described his own office as “exceptionally nice.” He also said that for older professors who continue to teach, the job is its own reward...
...have no trouble discussing issues of race while young teens, influenced by social taboos, avoid the topic in social settings, according to a joint study from professors at Harvard Business School and Tufts published last month. The paper, entitled “Learning (not) to talk about race: When older children underperform in social categorization,” is one of two new studies on race written by Business School Professor Michael I. Norton along with lead author Evan P. Apfelbaum, a PhD candidate at Tufts, and Samuel R. Sommers, an assistant professor at Tufts. “The impetus...