Word: septuagenarian
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...looked as ungovernable as California: big teams quit, and more threatened to do so; the financial industry canceled its lifeblood sponsorship almost en masse; track attendance is down; and scandals have tarnished everyone from a world champ to the former head of motor sport itself. Bernie Ecclestone, the septuagenarian who is usually described as F1's principal stakeholder (a description that doesn't come close to encompassing his power) insists that all is now well with the world. "The sport's in better shape than it's ever been," he says coolly to TIME. "The negative things are all ironed...
...septuagenarian Clark, who has suddenly become one of the most influential men in Africa, is another factor. Nigerian leaders often come with a powerful mentor working behind the scenes; a backer whose office is the only way to get to the big guy. On Feb. 11, two days after his protégé took office, a mass of Nigeria's rich, powerful and wannabes - parliamentarians, former ministers, ex-governors, a former police chief and even the head of a state-owned television station - crowded into the expansive living room of Clark's Abuja mansion. Clark sensed his growing power...
...power struggles, he couldn't escape the chaos and cruelty of his era. His son killed himself in 1979 after being sent to work in a factory while his parents were jailed. Yang later denounced the Tiananmen crackdown of 1989. The authorities, perhaps more worried about student activists than septuagenarian scholars, declined to put him back behind bars...
Among Manchester United Football Club's 300 million or so supporters worldwide are two Burmese men whose love of the game spans generations. One is a stout, bespectacled, betel nut - chewing septuagenarian, the other his favorite teenage grandson, and like many of their soccer-mad compatriots they stay up late into Burma's tropical nights to watch live broadcasts from faraway England. So far, so normal. But knowing the grandfather in this touching scene is Senior General Than Shwe, the xenophobic chief of Burma's junta, makes it seem all wrong. Rabidly anti-Western, yet pro-Wayne Rooney, is this...
Italian women are popularly defined by their role in the Prime Minister's macho broadcast nation, where pretty girls wear lingerie on television and hanker for the loving touch of a septuagenarian. Even female news anchors reading their lines over video of gore in Afghanistan wear halter tops. The reputedly randy Prime Minister has promoted some of the more lovely young things - dubbed by Italians vitello, or veal - from his broadcasting empire into his Cabinet. He has deflected the political fallout from the nearly pornographic video of orgiastic parties at his villas. First-person accounts from prostitutes hired to entertain...