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...vindictive, and she is not even the least bit manipulative. She is strong about the things she considers important. The best-known example is the way she influenced her husband to stop drinking. Otherwise, she lets smaller issues remain small. Even the five-week wait after Nov. 7 to see who had won the election was "not really that difficult," she told me. "People may not believe that, but I knew George and I would be all right either way. We knew we had worked hard in the campaign, and the wait let us put our lives and even...
...minute speech, delivered shortly after 10 p.m. in the hall of the Texas House of Representatives, Bush prominently sounded the theme of reconciliation, calling it his duty to heal the country after an historically tumultuous five-week post-election legal battle...
...countries would seem less likely to succeed in the modern world of globalization, free trade and high-tech, speed-of-light capitalism than France. Widely caricatured as the home of the five-week vacation, the 35-hour workweek and the crippling public-sector strike, this overcentralized, overtaxed, state-heavy, tradition-bound, protectionist and perversely self-satisfied nation could not possibly survive in the competitive, market-driven international arena of today. Could...
...Harold Washington has issued its parents their own report cards for several years. Chicago has announced plans to take a similar practice district-wide this fall, when it will send home reports on the moms and dads of the 431,000 kids in grades K through 12. Posted at five-week intervals, the reports will rate parents--good, satisfactory or less than satisfactory--on points including whether they get their children to bed on time or show up for school events. Parents who accrue enough demerits risk the equivalent of academic probation: a house call from a district volunteer...
...Hampshire. If that happens, of course, he will come under enormous pressure to concede for the good of the party. But Bradley compares the primary schedule to a movie. Iowa and New Hampshire "are like the previews," he says, and the March contests "are the feature." The five-week gap between New Hampshire and March 7, he insists, "essentially makes it a whole new campaign." He's looking beyond New Hampshire. After that, he says...