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...there were two types of people in our street - the slackers and the hard workers. We had our troubles at home, sure, but we were hard workers." The work ethic got Latham through school and university, brought his family a home of their own, and eventually, after a slog in the minor leagues, brought the only son a career in big-time politics...
This may seem like an awkward time for Abizaid and the forces he commands to accentuate the positive. By many measures, the U.S. enterprise in Iraq remains a chaotic, costly slog. The prison scandal has plainly made the goal of winning Iraqi hearts and minds remote. Last week's brutal videotaped decapitation of American Nicholas Berg, 26, showed again just how dangerous Iraq remains. Even Donald Rumsfeld, the embattled Defense Secretary, acknowledged at least the possibility that the grand American design for Iraq--a stable democracy at the heart of the autocratic Arab world--might end in failure...
Research, though, can be a slog. InvestingInBonds.com has prices as well as a calculator to compare taxable and tax-free yields. But there are about 1.4 million muni issues trading, so it's hard to keep everything straight. Another downside: you have to pony up about 2% of the bond's value when you execute the trade, according to a recent study by the Securities and Exchange Commission's chief economist...
...loves to read, eschews autobiographies "because I want to be myself, not mirroring others." Perhaps, she says, she'll qualify for Athens; more likely her first Games will be in Beijing and her best in 2012. "I want to go as far as I can," she says, but the slog is an end in itself: "It makes you tough ... it will make me a better person than I would have been otherwise." For all the change that's occurred in swimming in the three decades that separate these two very different women, they're linked by a common quest...
...antsy quality to his tap dancing that is not reassuring. It reinforces other eruptions of loose talk--statements that weren't very statesmanlike, rumors he has reported as fact. Last fall, for example, Clark stated without equivocation or any proof that Donald Rumsfeld had leaked his own "long hard slog" Iraq memo. This sort of carelessness is strange in an obviously disciplined military man. If foreign policy is a character issue, the general is in danger of appearing...