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...AIPAC convention last week, one of the most enthusiastically received speakers was DeLay, the born-again Christian who has lately positioned himself as the most ardent Zionist in Congress. At the grass roots, Jews say they feel a growing solidarity with Fundamentalist Christians about Israel. "I listen to Rush Limbaugh now," says Moira Klein, 72, a liberal Jewish retiree who lives in Boca Raton, Fla., "and I like what I hear." Republicans hope that they will be hearing more from Jewish voters like her in November...
...wars heat up again, and a growing number of workers opt to be independent contractors or to job hop at will, managers will also have to work harder than ever to retain people and develop all of them--not just standouts--to their fullest potential. Rather than dampening the rush toward free agency, many observers believe the recent ax wielding will only encourage it. "It's not that everybody is dying to be a free agent," says Bruce Tulgan, author of Winning the Talent Wars (W.W. Norton & Co.). "It's that people are realizing they have no choice." And companies...
...that sounds like another potential Somalia, it's easy to understand why the President, for all his tough talk, is not about to rush into anything. "Bush cannot embark on a mission that fails," says Geoffrey Kemp, a former member of President Reagan's National Security Council now at the Nixon Center in Washington. "Given what happened to his father and the hype in this Administration, it would be the end." And for Saddam, yet another new beginning...
Maybe it was the multiple concussions I had likely suffered from my involuntary cranial thrusts, but, as the warp speed portion of my ride progressed, I began to relax and enjoy myself. I cannot lie; the whirl of the engine, the rush of the wind and the feel of speed was unbelievably (unbearably?) exhilarating and—discounting my perpetual fear of death or serious injury—really, really, really...
...eased my hold on Stith’s waist, unclenched my teeth and even permitted my head to pivot 30 or 40 degrees to either side to see what the world looks like from atop a speeding motorcycle. Apparently, the world looks like a splatter painting rushing by at 80 mph from atop a speeding motorcycle—I would have to content myself with the whirl of the engine and the rush of the wind...