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...there are signs nonetheless that, as in every marriage, each is already working subtle changes on the other. When asked by TIME to name the hardest question he posed to Edwards before picking him to be his running mate, Kerry instead launched into his stump speech about giving the country a better direction. It was then that his new partner interrupted, most gently: "Don't you think it's fair to say we wanted to both be sure that we both believed in that going forward?" To which Kerry answered, "Obviously. We wanted to make sure there was a connection...
Among the areas hardest hit by the severance packages was Countway Library, which lost its head librarian, two of her chief deputies and 12 other employees, library workers said...
...encounter the hoary Old Testament icon afresh as a sensual, fallible human being and really appreciate his greatness and his sacrifice. The Preservationist reminds us that being God's servant 24/7 is both the ultimate privilege and a hell of a lot of hard work, and Noe is the hardest-working man in the Bible...
...schedules to off-peak hours, which lost them days of work, while thousands of local companies suspended operations entirely as available energy was funneled to foreign and joint-venture firms to keep their assembly lines humming. The electricity crunch hit China's fastest-developing eastern and southern regions the hardest, as overtaxed power plants simply couldn't keep up with the pressure from energy-intensive industries such as steel and cement. As a result, a province like Zhejiang saw its 2003 economic growth rate come in 1% lower than expected...
...Tenet's resignation last week, Rice showed no sign of old rancor. "It's really a great loss," she said Thursday aboard Air Force One. "I'm personally very sad because this has been a great team and it's worked through a lot of really hard issues." The hardest issue may be the one still to come--how to form an intelligence system that can extract high-quality information and analyze it without bowing to anyone's preconceptions. "If any future President asks my advice," Bush told TIME three years ago, "my advice is get to know your...