Word: houdini
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...think Bill Belichick, head coach of the perfect New England Patriots, the hoodie-wrapped Houdini of the sidelines, dresses down on game days? You should check out his sartorial selections during the week. Before a practice in late November, Belichick is wearing jeans and a ratty gray shirt; it looks as if a dog--and then a hyena--has feasted on his collar...
...which there is an enormous amount of time to get things done," presidential counselor Dan Bartlett says. "As you look back over history, divided government has often produced big results." White House officials say they have a plan, and told TIME how they hope to pull off their Houdini...
...least wasn't hooked up to the power. It might have been pretty warm there." --KARL BEZNOSKA, owner of Houdini, a 12-ft.-long Burmese python that required surgery after swallowing a queen-size electric blanket...
...many turned corners that have led to dead ends, Bush wisely shunned any predictions about how much good would come from al-Zarqawi's elimination. But the sense of elation in the U.S. command was impossible to contain. With his penchant for videotaped beheadings, spectacular suicide mass killings and Houdini-style escapes from U.S. pursuers, the Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi had become the face of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, complete with a $25 million bounty on his head. Bush had all but branded him Hitler, referring to him more than 100 times in speeches as wanting...
...risk of being a complete failure." That's typically French. In Germany and Scandinavia, change happens after considered debate and lengthy analysis. In France, by contrast, it tends to be convulsive and born of conflict: one violent leap backward followed by two surreptitious steps forward. It's Houdini, not Thatcher. "If you only think of reform in terms of the Big Night, you'll never get anywhere," says Jean-François Copé, the government minister officially charged with reform of the state. In its own way, the incremental approach can bear fruit. Over the past decade, governments...