At 72, he would be the oldest president ever inaugurated, apart from Ronald Reagan in his second term.

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The difference is that, with government an increasingly hermetic place, it will be harder than ever to tell the two apart.

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And some of the financial benefits from basketball could be minimized if select teams from the Big East were ever to split apart.

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