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UPDATES FROM Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea  On Turning 90  Posted:
09/23/09 04:10 PM ET  How does one feel on one's 90th birthday?
Not very differently from the last 'round one' ten years ago.
But the world has different rules: at 30 you are still
adolescent, at 40 a grown man; nowadays men of 50, 60 or even 70
are classified just as old masters in art history, in early,
high and late middle age. At 80 you start really aging, but 90?
There is no real label: you are an antique. People look at you
closely and ask you, as a rule, whether you are still working or
have retired. In my case I can only say that I work longer
hours, travel more and have branched out in several new
directions.  My work as a columnist has brought me a new
appellation: witness to the century. A venerable title, which
led to my being asked by a young reporter the other day how I
felt in June 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War and if
by any chance I was in Sarajevo. "Yes," I r