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...powerful tranquilizer, the kind they'd administer to a horse. Or a little girl could pick up a hockey stick and sense its potential for violence, and thus 10 years later, I have a 6-ft., 180-lb. defensewoman under my roof who loves to bang into people and knock their molars loose. My daughter is no shrinking violet. The other day I saw the little darling try to throttle a 6-year-old boy. She threw him down and was about to kick him in the pancreas. I called her name from the kitchen window, and she smiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Daughter Dearest | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

...Black ambles around Betfair's offices in shorts and a fleece. In his spare time, he still likes to gamble. The next wager he'll need to make is when to take Betfair public, something he insists won't happen for at least 18 months. "We've got to knock the company into shape," Black says. "We want to get the timing right." It's the biggest bet of all, and not something even a seasoned gambler would take lightly. --By Jennie James/London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tech Specialists | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

...group called Grassroots Solutions to contact voters on behalf of his campaign. While voters were receiving phone calls, personal visits and postcards from neighbors who supported Jeff Smith, Grassroots Solutions sent paid employees (many of whom had never heard of Russ Carnahan before they got their jobs) to knock on doors and call voters...

Author: By Samuel M. Simon, | Title: Raging Against the Machine | 8/20/2004 | See Source »

...videos were just one part of a broader strategy. If voters weren’t delivering videos for Jeff, they could host a neighborhood event, knock on a couple of doors or just talk to their friends. Jeff’s campaign gave everybody a way to participate, and it allowed them to start by reaching out their own communities. Jeff knew he was never going to get the traditional political players, so he went after the majority of voters who have never been part of a political campaign. Jeff won St. Louis because he recognized that everybody...

Author: By Samuel M. Simon, | Title: Raging Against the Machine | 8/20/2004 | See Source »

...would be great if eventually we could all get comfortable calling ourselves feminists. For now, however, we can take part in something bigger. By encouraging women to knock on the doors of power and opening the doors when they knock, we can advance the “F” word’s ideals...

Author: By Asya Troychansky, | Title: Adapting the 'F' Word | 8/6/2004 | See Source »

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