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...policymakers are betting that the latest saber rattling from Beijing, which includes veiled threats of military action against Taiwan delivered to U.S. think tanks and other outside China watchers, is an effort to pressure Washington to lean harder on Taiwan President LEE TENG...
Greenville is the kind of place where the wild kids cruising down North Main lean out their windows and shout, "Jesus loves you!" But the church folk in town knew members didn't always practice what was preached. They might have a food bank, might donate Christmas toys and Thanksgiving baskets, but long-term, hands-on care was left to government experts, the professional social workers. "We were like 911," says Wilhelmena Tucker, a volunteer from Foster Grove Baptist Church. "We would help in an emergency, but when the emergency was over, there was no follow...
...tough to imagine the CEO of a lean, mean operation falling for that one five years ago. It's tougher still to imagine that it would work, as a lot of CEOs apparently now do. Major businesses like Pfizer, American Express and Southwest Airlines, along with much smaller outfits, are laying out more than $55.3 billion annually--almost twice what they spent in the mid-1980s--on training. And the hottest new training device is the offsite, a company- or department-wide session away from the office. But today's offsite isn't a few meetings in a windowless hotel...
...told me the day after I was diagnosed that I'd be here today leading the Tour de France, there'd be no way I'd believe you," says Armstrong as he stretches his thigh muscles in a hotel room along the race circuit. He is taut and lean, and his close-cropped brown hair has replaced the temporary baldness caused by his treatment--three months of debilitating chemotherapy and a brain operation to remove the tumors...
...deal. Pragmatic governors and tax-cut hawks are the party stars, and social conservatives are simply not welcome on the national stage. Among the spurned, there has been plenty of disappointed talk, but only someone as crotchety as Smith has the chutzpah to leave the GOP tent for the lean-tos of a Reform party or Taxpayer?s party. "This is quixotic," says Dickerson. "As much courage as Smith has for bolting ? and as much press as he'll get for it ? he?ll be a whisper from here on out." And if Bush wins, the same could...