Here's to You, Mrs. Robinson

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Family issues aside, these women--and their boyfriends--are having a grand time. The men benefit from the women's self-possession. An older woman, Landry notes, "would be right up front as to what she wants out of the relationship. The unrealistic expectations that a young girl may have about life and a wedding and the American Dream may not be there." Older women can also offer younger mates sage business and life advice. Meanwhile, the women revel in dating energetic, optimistic guys who keep the romance stirring and their sex lives buzzing. And why not? Says Rose: "Hey, fair is fair. Given how much we've been put aside for younger women, this is only right."

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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