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...changed that relationship, for as the casualties mount in Iraq, polls suggest that some of that faith is eroding. Which means the next time Bush tells the nation where he wants to go, it may not be so quick to follow. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper and Adam Zagorin/Washington, John F. Dickerson with Bush in Africa, J.F.O. McAllister/London and Andrew Purvis/Vienna
...exactly learning how to make a fire with two sticks, but perhaps just as useful. --Reported by Cathy Booth Thomas/San Antonio, Kristin Kloberdanz/Chicago, Broward Liston/Orlando, Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles, Adam Pitluk/Dallas and Molly Worthen/Bryn Mawr
...Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, for "his courage and relentless search for the truth." But truth contains many more shades of gray than Baer is prepared to acknowledge. The Saudis are not the first useful but troubled American ally. And they are unlikely to be the last. --By Adam Zagorin...
...pose a problem not just for workers but also for President Bush as he gears up for the 2004 election. If things don't improve, he could be the first President since Herbert Hoover to record a drop in the number of working Americans during his whole term. --By Adam Zagorin...
Here Franklin's improvisational genius came into play, as did his restraint. Adams would snarl that Franklin would receive undue credit for having set out "to abolish monarchy, aristocracy, and hierarchy, throughout the world." If he could, he might well have; he had long been allergic to titles and idle elites and dynastic privilege. Fifty-three years before he sailed to France, he noted that Americans do not speak of "Master Adam" or "the Right Honourable Abraham" or "Noah, Esquire." Those observations had not endeared him to the ruling elites of America or Britain any more than his humble origins...