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...results, Raffarin rebounded with some defiant stump speeches meant to get across the message that reform is vital - and will continue. That message isn't going over very well. While the French have felt the sting of modest labor reform (some employees must work longer before full pensions kick in; one public holiday was eliminated to help finance care for the aged), there has been no gain so far in terms of more vigorous growth, lower unemployment or blossoming consumer or business confidence. With growth in 2003 under 1%, a budget deficit shredding E.U. limits and a jobless figure hovering...
...Where do I start?” Flanagan said. “The main thing [we have to do is] figure out how to stop their powerplay and how to kick-start ours and get it going...
...right side of the offensive zone. The puck bounced off a Harvard defender and right into the path of Connors, who was crashing the net. Unprepared for the strange bounce, sophomore netminder Ali Boe had her legs together in anticipation of the cross and could not kick out her left leg fast enough to get a piece of the shot...
Despite these liabilities, though, walking yields real pleasure. There’s something primal about it: the extension of the long muscles of your thighs, the swing of your knee’s hinge, the kick at the apex of your stride, the roll of your foot’s fine, differentiated bones against the pavement. Walking allows you to think: Charles Dickens, I read once, often walked 20 miles a day and would come back brimming with new characters, dialogue and melodrama. And Dickens did it in the days before really comfortable footwear. Too, walking provides a friendly view...
...with his retinue. (Most of the leading characters are based on real people.) To Swearengen, the formula is simple: former lawman + gunfighter = nascent police force, especially when the two stumble on a massacre-robbery perpetrated by "road agents" working for him. It seems, though, that Bullock just wants to kick his law habit and make a dollar, and Hickok, to drink and gamble his way into oblivion. "Hickok was acutely aware of his time having passed," says Carradine. "He had outlived his usefulness." Throw in abused prostitute Trixie (Paula Malcomson); Alma Garret, a laudanum-addicted lady from back East (Molly...