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...been able to not let that person and that part of me be in charge--that guy is in the car, but we just don't let him drive. That's something Springsteen told me once, and it really works. He'll be talking in your ear in the backseat, but just don't let him get behind the wheel. And you can be proud of it. I've talked to the people that raised me, and I've thanked them for giving me a lifetime's worth of material. I was talking to Bono in Australia last year...
Clinton's national-security expertise should be no small advantage in an election that may well take place in the midst of a war. But it is likely to take a backseat to a more prominent question about experience--whether eight years as First Lady qualifies one to be President of the United States. And to a more cosmic experience-related question than that: whether, after 20 years of Bushes and Clintons in the White House, we want to keep trading our most precious office back and forth between these two extremely strange families. In fact, it's entirely possible...
Hong Kong and China are only H&M's first stops in Asia. Three more stores are planned for Hong Kong this year, and two in Shanghai. As a sign of how China has come to dominate the Asian retail market, Japan has taken a backseat. H&M will open its first store there by 2008. Other possibilities, like Singapore, are in the works. "We're taking things slow to start out, but we're clearly not going into Asia for 10 stores," Persson explains. "The potential for the market is just too huge...
...heard of them. They're the ones who are making TV shows like Ugly Betty into surprise hits and keeping Beyoncé and Avril Lavigne at the top of the pop charts. Hollywood, oddly, has been ignoring them lately, as romantic comedies have taken a backseat to guy films like 300 and Wild Hogs, superhero sequels and slasher films. But Broadway, long worried about its graying audience, is in hot pursuit. A good deal of the credit for this nascent relationship goes to possibly the least-appreciated breakthrough hit of the past decade: Wicked. The musical prequel to the Wizard...
...think many women, no matter how successful they are and how productive, at home take the backseat to a man who’s not as erudite or as intelligent as they are, and they do it for the good of their children,†she said...