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...Lovie's boat. "He's got a quiet confidence about him that demands respect," Grossman says. "You just follow his every lead." In the Windy City, where the bluster of legendary coaches George Halas and Mike Ditka helped lead Da Bears to glory, Smith is a cool breeze off Lake Michigan. "He's not seeking to show he's General Patton," says Marv Levy, general manager of the Buffalo Bills, a 40-7 victim of a Bears beating. Smith, who spent 20 years as a college and pro assistant before taking the Bears job in 2004, revered coaches who taught...
...Texas town of Big Sandy, where his work ethic spoke volumes. In the summers, Smith, a self-described "hick" who turns words like curfew into care-few, picked berries, and tossed 30-lb. bales of hay onto trucks. "I can smell it now," he says, perking up in his Lake Forest, Ill., office, loading faux hay over his shoulder. "We didn't know about lifting weights. Haaaay! That's what you got." The name Lovie he got from his great-aunt Lavana, no doubt requiring him to become a very tolerant man. His most stirring performance took place...
...would it help to admit publicly that this has all been a mistake? Anthony Lake, President Clinton's first national security adviser, isn't sure. "To the degree a democracy is present, anything you say can, and will, be held against you by political opponents. If you admit a mistake now, it's like putting a cut finger in a shark tank." Therefore, says Lake, who now teaches at Georgetown University, "it is extremely important, whatever a government might say in public, that it can see the situation clearly in private...
...saplings from FFI to plant as an income substitute for the village. Hashimi, an ex-logger who before the tsunami cut down more than 10 trees a month to satisfy demand for Aceh's precious seumantok wood, is also thinking long term. "If we replant the trees by the lake," he says, "maybe we could increase eco-tourism in Aceh." Those are hopeful words from an island where hope has been in short supply...
During the week, Tim Mahoney, the Democratic candidate for Florida's 16th congressional district, is a millionaire investment banker in Boca Raton, Fla. On the weekends he plays cattle rancher at his spread west of Lake Okeechobee. Given that just a week ago Mahoney trailed six-term Republican incumbent Mark Foley by double digits in the polls, it seemed politics was destined to be just another of his expensive hobbies. But since Foley dropped out of the race last Friday - felled by the growing scandal over inappropriate e-mails he sent to young congressional pages - Mahoney suddenly appears to have...