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...matter of setting priorities, but there are also unavoidable obstacles to getting that full night’s rest. “We need to educate people to bring about institutional changes,” he said, adding that it is biologically more difficult for young adults than for older adults to get up early in the morning. According to Lockley, asking young adults to attend an eight o’clock class is equivalent to requiring older adults to go to work at 3 a.m. David Mou ’08 said that he found the presentation interesting...
...Senator Barack Obama may be the youngest major contender vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, but three prominent Harvard faculty members said yesterday that the 45-year old’s life experiences, particularly his time overseas, give him an edge over his older competitors...
...thing that struck you about Barack back then was that he seemed very different,” Mack said. “He seemed like he was a little bit older, a littler bit wiser, and a little bit better read in the ways of the world...
...knowing, of producing (whether necessary or not) an unanswerable question that seeks resolution, and this is what gives “Angelica” its momentum and energy. But that momentum leads only to frustration. At the end, Phillips hands the reader a non-resolution in which a markedly older and less enchanting Angelica openly (and annoyingly) vacillates between the several possible explanations to the mystery. The novel flattens out to become everything it should not have become: material, explicit, and heavy-handed. Phillips writes of the ghostly nature of life, the spectral view that floats and inhabits each...
...older women over, Dove puts a positive spin on the unhappy moment when a woman buys her first jar of antiwrinkle cream. "The concept is linguistically brilliant," says Cheryl Swanson, a managing partner at Toniq, a brand-strategy firm in New York City. "Skin care has typically been about fighting back--age defying. It's been almost warrior-like. Take a stance against this natural thing that's happening to you. This is different." The strategy tells women, implicitly, that they can look better without trying too hard...