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...Quotes By: "Working for Dave is great though. Aside from being incredibly funny and personable he is generous, kind and is great fun to play catch with. I really couldn't ask for a more fun work environment. Dave is truly the greatest boss I could ever have." - In an interview with a Wake Forest school publication about her job (Window on Wake Forest, Sept...
Blame the homecomings on boredom, nostalgia or an indomitable drive to compete ("I got the itch," Favre reportedly told former teammate Al Harris during his first return, in 2008). But not all comebacks are success stories. Just ask Bjorn Borg, who left tennis in 1983 and un-retired in 1991, wooden racket in hand. He didn't win a single match that year. And Jordan was hardly magic during his brief stint with the Washington Wizards from 2001 to 2003, as injuries limited his playing time. Indeed, Favre's first comeback, with the New York Jets, fell apart down...
...either collapsed or are so heavily damaged that they are condemned. Pariaman, he notes, is located astride one of the world's most active fault-lines. "Every natural disaster you can think of, it has happened here," he says. "Landslides, floods, volcano eruptions, earthquakes, even a tsunami. Some people ask me, why don't you leave? But we are people of faith, and we must face up to these challenges...
...their alleged plot. Intelligence officials wanted to know who was running the show, the extent of the conspiracy, what the targets might be. But while Obama understood the need for more information, sources tell TIME, he quizzed advisers about their decision to initially hold off on arrests. "He would ask, understandably, 'O.K., when are you going to arrest these guys? Are we confident that there is not something out there that may in fact go boom?' " the senior Administration official recalls. (Read "NYPD Denies It Botched a Terrorism Probe...
...group of TIME editors were sitting down to interview Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at his New York City hotel. Our strategy was to avoid the obvious questions - Ahmadinejad has been grilled relentlessly about his heinous views on the Holocaust - but there was an obvious question that needed to be asked immediately: What was his reaction to the impending Obama statement? He seemed befuddled. His first response was incomprehensible: "So, is all the information that Mr. Obama receives of the same nature?" TIME's managing editor, Rick Stengel, asked the question again, and this time the response was thin defiance...