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...ropes, forced by an overwhelming tide of opinion in his party and the country to say when he'll leave Downing Street - or face the humiliation of being forced out. In a public statement Thursday (no questions permitted), he confirmed hints from Cabinet allies that he'd quit within a year, but rebuffed calls for a specific timetable. Still seeking some running room, he said, "I will do that at a future date; and I'll do it in the interests of the country and in the circumstances of the time...
...work habits are abominable. He is busiest when the sky over the city is a grey suspicion of dawn, the hour when streetwalkers quit, grifters count their take, busted junkies begin to jitter with the inside sweats. He is a loner, but his world is filled with friends. He knows the cop with the abused arches, the complaisant heiress, the slick saloon proprietor, the sick comic, the sullen stoolie who talks in the guarded whisper of cell block and exercise yard ... HE IS HARD-MUSCLED, HANDSOME, HANDY WITH A SNUB-NOSE .38, AND HIS HIDE IS AS TOUGH...
...quit 60 Minutes to focus on your family, but you now seem to juggle motherhood and work well. What do you say to women who want to have...
...Clinton's emergency quadruple bypass in 2004 inspired yet another campaign, one to fight childhood obesity, which led to a deal in April in which the three biggest beverage manufacturers agreed to quit selling sodas in schools. Magaziner says that is just the beginning. Their next target is vending-machine snack foods and cafeteria lunches, and they are even in negotiations with fast-food companies to reduce the fat in their restaurant fare. And earlier this month, he launched yet another project, the Clinton Climate Initiative, which joins 22 of the world's largest cities to create an international consortium...
...McConnell's silence - which Dyche believes is intentional - has left others, including Secretary of State Trey Grayson, to call for Fletcher to quit after a single four-year term. "There is a basic worry that if the governor is on the ballot in the fall, he can't win against the Democrat," Grayson in an interview Wednesday. Grayson said he has spoken twice this month with McConnell about his plans, but said they were private conversations. McConnell declined comment. "We ran last time on a campaign aimed at cleaning up Frankfort, with changing the culture in Frankfort," Grayson...