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...media and the ethics hounds. But there's another relevant model as well: lots of women who make a detour aren't looking to have more time for Gymboree; they're doing it because they want to start their own business, make their own rules, be their own boss - and this seems more Sarah's tune. Palin's brand is maverick, and her mode is moxie. "I'm not a quitter," she said. "I'm a fighter." (See pictures of Sarah Palin...
...outlook didn't get any less murky after Senate majority leader Harry Reid met on July 8 with key Republicans. Reid spokesman Jim Manley said his boss - who the day before conveyed to Baucus he would have trouble getting his fellow Democrats to vote for taxing health benefits - told the Republicans that the time for posturing was over. It was now time, he stressed, to make clear whether they intended to be part of the process of writing a bill or simply oppose it. "The message was, 'Are you in or are you out?' " Manley said. But where Reid...
...Soviet predecessors, Putin has shown a distaste for acknowledging weakness or tragedy. "In the Russian mentality," says Anna Kireeva of the environmental group Bellona, which investigated the Kursk sinking out of concern that nuclear waste might seep from the submarine, "there is a joke: Rule 1 is the boss is always right. Rule 2 is, if the boss is wrong, see Rule...
With the death of their boss, the two survivors--Sergeant J.T. "Bomber Mike" Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty)--get a new boss, Staff Sergeant William James (Jeremy Renner), an Afghanistan vet who lacks his predecessor's leadership skills and bluff camaraderie. James doesn't say much and just does his own thing, which is to keep little pieces of Baghdad from blowing...
...victim's DNA on it. The two have given conflicting accounts of their whereabouts, and there is evidence that the murder scene was tampered with before police arrived. Then there's the confession, in which Knox said she was at the house during the killing but blamed her boss, bar owner Patrick Lumumba (who was later cleared). The document was signed without a lawyer present and is inadmissible, but prosecutors produced another note in which, they say, Knox reaffirmed her declaration...