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...Franklin Roosevelt's experience as governor of New York that gave him the power to inspire in some of the nation's darkest hours? Or was that gift a distillate of his dauntless battle with polio? To a keen student of human nature, all of life offers lessons in how to lead, inspire and endure. Lincoln's ability to apply useful lessons from his motley experiences was among his most striking traits. When Ulysses Grant explained his grand strategy to defeat Lee by attacking on multiple fronts, Lincoln immediately thought of a lesson in joint operations learned years earlier...
...time for lunch - as she passionately discusses the profession into which she stumbled by chance. Having abandoned her dream of becoming a surgeon after the birth of her first daughter in the mid-'90s, she searched for a new interest to help her through what she recalls as "the darkest period of my life...
Giuliani advisers will tell you these past few weeks are nothing more than the darkest hours before a Florida dawn. But they, like everyone else, still don't know whether GOP voters will rally around a candidate who chose to sit out the first four weeks of the campaign...
...baseball fan. What was your reaction to the Mitchell Report on steroids? -Ava Reed, Los AngelesIt was probably the darkest day in modern baseball history. For the rest of our lives we will look at the inflated statistics and some of the so-called stars who put up those numbers and doubt the authenticity. Hopefully, it is behind us, but I am not sure...
...Challenge and Change Yet even in the darkest times, the Nylonkong cities had the sort of hidden strengths that would be their salvation. All had a certain adaptability hardwired into their people. All were once centers of manufacturing, but all have been able to shift their economic focus to the service sector as factories moved from New York's lower east side, or London's Park Royal estate, or the thousands of tiny enterprises in Kowloon, to the American sunbelt or up the Pearl River delta from Hong Kong to Guangdong province. All are - or have been - great ports. Today...