Word: doneness
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...while the Clinton campaign hired the best and brightest faces to run its Iowa shop, there?s only so much that can be done without the resources or the candidate. A month away from the caucuses, Clinton had spent 52 days in state, visiting just 38 counties compared with the 99 visited by Edwards and the 68 by Obama. Since then, her campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle has moved out to Iowa to personally oversee the operation here, while Clinton has spent an additional 11 of the last 14 days in the state, adding another 14 county visits...
...they - Burton, screenwriter John Logan, the whole cast and crew - they've done it. This adaptation of the Hugh Wheeler libretto (from Christopher Bond's play) is both faithful and liberating. The story, of a bitter man in 19th century London who has lost his wife and child and determines to carve out his revenge, has never seemed so human or so bleak. It's no longer just a Guignol songfest, staring at its creatures, with fascination but not pity, from an Olympian distance above the cage in which they claw at one another. Inside this sarcophagus of a play...
...balance your desire for daredevil adventure with the risk of death? -Mengqiao Wang, Ithaca, N.Y.As an adventurer, if I try to do something man has not done before-like cross the Atlantic in a hot-air balloon-I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, though, you've got to take calculated risks; otherwise, you're going to sit in mothballs all day and do nothing. Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than...
...Does your thrill-seeking spirit help or hurt you in business? -Horacio Coutiño, Mexico CityI think it helps. Entrepreneurs are adventurous people who are trying to do things that have never been done before. Sometimes you fall flat on your face, but I think by going out there and giving it a go, in the end you might actually succeed...
...greenhouse gas as a pollutant that could be regulated like any other. The California initiative, part of the state's landmark climate change plan, could have provided a nationwide model for cutting automobile emissions, one of the single biggest sources of greenhouse gas in the U.S. "The Administration has done a number of indefensible things on the environment and global warming," says Jim Marston, director of the state climate initiative for Environmental Defense. "But this is the worst in terms of process, and the one that will be most harmful to the health and safety of the American people...