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...That stands to reason. Any major change now would seem a sign of weakness. The President is stubborn to a fault in support of his team. And there was enough good news for Republicans last week-the selection of John Edwards didn't help Kerry's standing in the polls very much; the Hollywood wing of the Democratic Party staged a Kerry fund raiser in New York City featuring a crude anti-Bush rant by Whoopi Goldberg-to give the President's strategists some hope. But this election isn't going to be about trial lawyers or Hollywood...
...routine needs work, Comaneci says, but she is the world's best on the beam and "probably the best on the floor at this particular time." "I really like Ponor," she adds. "She is a great athlete. She is pretty, has a great personality - simply everything." She is also stubborn. As a 4-year-old, she dragged her mother, a bank cashier in the Romanian seaport of Constanta, to the gym to sign her up for lessons. Five years later, when her mother wanted to pull her out of training, deeming it too strenuous, she threatened to run away from...
...into a store and feel that the clerk is being rude, stop and think that she may have had a tough day, and put yourself in her shoes." I remember that he told his son, "A gentleman always does the kind thing." Yes, Ronnie could be stubborn--but always with a smile...
...thought how eerie and disturbing that was. When we went to Checkpoint Charlie, and Ronnie was shown the line that people couldn't cross, he took his foot and put it over the line. He felt it was important to assert what was right. He got very stubborn and even mad when his advisers would take out a line he really believed from a speech. It was on that trip that he stood in front of the Berlin Wall and said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall...
...Next came the moves that turned out to be mistakes so large that Washington is still trying to reverse them a year later: disbanding the Iraqi army (only to try to reconstitute it last fall), radical de-Baathification (only to re-Baathify in certain cities this spring) and a stubborn belief that Iraqi leaders handpicked by hard-liners in Washington would be the perfect start to the Arab world's first democracy. When those leaders turned out to have no followers except in Washington, the U.S. quietly tossed the entire political puzzle into the hands of a U.N. envoy named...