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...showing me the importance of hard work.” And the forces at work here become clearer. It’s about Vern Morris working three jobs and Jane Morris working two to send him to a boarding school Morris says was too expensive for them to swing. “Seeing them work so hard made me want to do the best I could while I was there,” Morris says...
...result of the fall, Rose slipped some of his vertebral discs. He took a few days off to rest the injury, but then realized he could throw a bit and so got back into the swing of things...
...Eisenhower's, Bush's popularity rests heavily on his prestige as Commander in Chief rather than on deep support for his domestic policies. Even with the Senate in G.O.P. hands, Bush will still have to court Democrats if he hopes to accomplish his goals and preserve his appeal to swing voters. It's no coincidence that in his news conference last Thursday, Bush identified passage of homeland-security legislation as the top priority on his agenda and bristled at the suggestion that he takes cues from his conservative base. "I don't take cues from anybody," he said...
...true that control of the Senate came down to a swing of just 41,000 votes in Missouri and New Hampshire. It's also true that those votes swung Republican, and in the minds of voters, the problem wasn't that the Democratic message was obscured but that the Democrats obscured it. After examining a postelection poll of his members, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney said they felt "neither party has a plan to strengthen the economy." But he added that "this is a particularly strong indictment of the Democrats. They needed to be crystal clear about what they stand...
...writing. Murakami has an uncanny connection to the sensibilities of his readers, many of whom are educated Japanese urbanites in their 30s and 40s. As their worldviews have shifted, so has the material in Murakami's novels. In the 1980s, when Japan's bubble economy was in full swing, his novels featured protagonists who were "very cool, very detached," says Murakami. "It was all very cool fantasy. I was escaping from the real world. But without realizing it, I got used to fighting-against the world, surroundings and the system. My stories have changed in every degree. Now what...