But sometimes I yearn for the days of former Fed chairmen Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan, who revealed nothing of what the Fed was thinking.
The 38-year-old finished at 2229 BST to shatter the former mark of nine days 23 hours, which was set by countryman Francis Joyon in 2000.
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That was all supposed to change years ago, at least as far back as the days of former GM Chairman Jack Smith, who retired back in 2003.
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Which is to say that while all these activities will certainly continue on a limited and sporadic (ie, unreliable) basis, the former days of their getting performed on-demand will no longer be possible.
Recalling the glory days of the former princely state, Ms Ahmadzeb said that during the Wali's reign women could move around unencumbered everywhere.
Anwar Souwan said he was among a select number of fighters who knew that the former dictator was hiding inside his hometown of Sirte several days before his capture.
It is hard to know whose counsel Mr Romney really values beyond that of his wife, a few former colleagues from his days as a private-equity investor, and senior campaign staff, many of whom are holdovers from his previous presidential run.
Landi's departure also comes only days after the signing of former Cannes and Metz midfielder Milan Thomas.
Monday's cremation marks the end of several days of commemorations for the former monarch, who died of a heart attack.
Mr Maluf, a conservative, is Sao Paulo's weightiest and most controversial politician, a former governor in the days of military rule and, both earlier and later, mayor of Sao Paulo city.
Meantime, among the tens of thousands of Americans who lost jobs in the first 100 days of the Obama presidency was one Rick Wagoner, former chief executive officer of General Motors Corp.
Each former employee could be awarded compensation of 60 days' pay.
Olmert's comments came days after the former head of the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak for their handling of Iran, saying neither inspires confidence.
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Cowan, originally from St Andrews in Scotland, was arrested three days later at the home of another former jail mate, Alan Hornall, in New Cumnock, East Ayrshire.
But these days it is a former devotee of Mr Bolkestein's, Geert Wilders of the far-right Freedom Party, who runs a website for citizens to complain about Polish migrants.
Still, Mr DeLay's decision to resign comes only a week after Jack Abramoff, a super-lobbyist, was sentenced to almost six years in prison, having pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire-fraud charges, and only a few days after his former deputy chief of staff, Tony Rudy, pleaded guilty to corruption and bribery charges in connection with the Abramoff probe.
The former paratroop colonel, dismissed in the early days of his challenge for power as a political neophyte, has now put the sophisticates rudely in their place.
His death on New Year's Day comes three days after the passing of another cricket great: former England captain Tony Greig on Saturday of a heart attack while fighting cancer.
The proposal for a two-tier SPL, with 10 teams in each division, and changes to the calendar mirrored the views of former First Minister Henry McLeish, who published a couple of days later the findings of his year-long review on behalf of the Scottish Football Association.
One of the athletes who has demonstrated success post-playing days is former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Bono.
As his mildly traumatized former passengers can attest, Derek got the most out of those days, hugging turns and accelerating through straightaways like he was auditioning for a car commercial.
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The man at the centre of the storm, former Arsenal striker Henry, released a statement two days after the infamous match in which he said a replay would have been "the fairest solution".
Delegate Harry Keith White, who campaigned with Crum last year, said his friend was killed in the same place where he parked his car most days to eat lunch, near the site of a former pharmacy known for illegally distributing pills.
The former Philippine First Lady celebrated her 70th birthday with four days of sumptuous parties that attracted the cream of the social set.
The judge ordered the former lawmaker to turn herself in 10 days after the Bureau of Prisons determines which prison she'll serve her sentence in.
Three days ago, Rebekah Brooks, the controversial former News of the World editor at the center of the phone hacking scandal, was still enjoying the support of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch.
And he believes that the three-times former league champions, graced in the past by names like Mal Aspey, Eric Hughes, Mick Burke and the Myler family, and by Martin Offiah, Joe Lydon, Andy Gregory and Jonathan Davies in their great days of the late 1980s, can go on to reprise former glories.
Two days prior to the debt-ceiling cliff, former House of Representatives member Dennis Kucinich spilled the beans.
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He stepped down just days after some of his Caribbean Football Union followers were interviewed by former FBI agents, enlisted by FIFA, to investigate the scandal.
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Democrats have privately floated some other big names for energy secretary in recent days, including California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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