So he was trying to make a comeback with The Old Man and the Sea, and the book, in fact, was a tremendous success.

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Though she wanted to make herself interesting to the old man by reading serious books, she never finished what she began, lapsing instead into daydreams or turning to old fashion magazines that she bought from a secondhand-book stall.

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The old addage, Go West, young man to make your way in the world, is fast becoming Go East, if it has not already.

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At 11 p.m. the two pulled up at a dark house with a dirt floor and no electricity--"a place I wouldn't even put my dog, " Parisi recalls. (Make that 13 dogs, all dachshunds.) A wrinkled old man came shuffling toward Parisi in the candlelight.

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The motion for the Humble Address is proposed by a senior and seconded by a junior government MP - "a genial old codger on the way out, and an oily young man on the make" as the former Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell put it, when he was the junior MP in question.

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One effect of such an honor, in addition to giving a grand old man overdue recognition in his dying days, is to inspire younger thinkers to make such intellectual contributions.

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Moscow (CNN) -- The father of a 27-year-old man shot dead by an FBI agent said Thursday that accounts he has heard about the killing make no sense.

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