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...which are under your control. On the other hand, if all you have is empathy and ambiguity and you don't know when to stand and fight and when to say no, then in the end all the sand will run out of the hourglass before you really can prevail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Side of The Story | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...says. “I had a great time as an undergraduate and I couldn’t think of a place where I’d rather study law.”Frank published a book, Net Worth: Successful Investing in the Companies That Will Prevail Through Internet Booms and Busts...

Author: By Yailett Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Two-time Orator Will Call For Fighting Injustice With Education | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...gossip alone will help keep this on playlists through September. It's also a perfectly acceptable bit of I'm-so-sorry-baby R. and B. It'll have chart competition from U Saved Me by the unkillable R. Kelly, but Usher should have enough momentum to prevail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The 12 Songs Of Summer | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...county building anyway, and they ended up in the office of county attorney Sowle. Even though Sowle had decided that Multnomah must grant same-sex marriage licenses, she did not provide one. Instead, she obfuscated. "I said, 'You know, I'm working on this opinion, and if I could prevail on you to wait a couple of days, I would appreciate it a lot. It would be a very good thing,'" she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Oregon Eloped | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

...before the June 30th handoff, its becoming clear that at least some of the insurgents will have a significant role in the new Iraq. First at Fallujah, and now at negotiations with followers Moqtada Sadr in Najaf, U.S. officials appear to have recognized that it may be difficult to prevail militarily against the insurgents without inflicting casualties and damage that would turn the civilian population even more decisively against the occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Future for Iraq's Insurgents? | 5/13/2004 | See Source »

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