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...have a spouse who is also in uniform. (Six percent of male soldiers have a military spouse; 41% of female soldiers do.) This means that the Army trains its soldiers for both war and love, offering secure e-mail channels and guidance on how to stay in touch, in a Family Deployment Survival Handbook: Keep your spouse's picture in front of you when you write, it says. "Share your feelings as openly as you can without indulging in self-pity ... Let your spouse know how and why you love them. Above all, express yourself clearly so he/she...
BROWN IS IN AN AIDE'S CAR, TALKING nonstop, jabbing and gesturing, impervious to interruption, pointing out potholes and telling the aide where to stop and when to turn. Brown is fun to watch. He is trim, constantly in motion, his brown eyes still piercing and just a touch sad. Compared with almost any other politician, he's a riot to talk to, a one-man romp through everyone from St. Paul to Albert Camus. Jane Brunner, a city councilwoman who didn't vote for the mayor but thinks he has done a good job, says that when she goes...
...Koné is talking a big game. A very big game. The founder and CEO of sportswear maker Airness is explaining his goal of swiftly boosting his company's 2005 predominantly French sales of $150 million to rival those of global giant Nike's $14.7 billion in 2005. Sound a touch fanciful? Don't tell him that. "You know where Puma was five years ago? Deeply troubled," Koné says of the now surging German-American sportswear group, whose sales last year exceeded $2 billion. "And six years ago, Airness scarcely existed. We didn't get this far this fast worrying about...
...roguish quality of these exploits dovetails nicely with Americans' rather sordid assumptions about whom they send to the Capitol. Polls have found that most Americans believe both senators and congressmen to be "petty politicians fighting for personal gain," (63%) "out of touch with what's going on in the country," (63%) and 41% believe that their own Congressman has taken a bribe. Of course, they are still electing them - perhaps as a way of rewarding their sheer stick-to-it-iveness and initiative. Being this corrupt, after all, must be hard work. Between the tabloid stories and the presumption...
...starry-eyed wanderers who come to the poorest continent to learn about themselves—and to make a difference along the way. Their demeanor was not new, nor unexpected. But there was something annoying about how they got their jollies from feel-good humanitarianism blended with a touch of delusion and a generous helping of sanctimonious outrage...