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Musharraf is under no illusions about the size of the task before him. Asked if his is the toughest job in the world, he replies with quiet bluntness: "I think at the moment, yes." Under U.S. pressure, Musharraf has pledged to keep his promise to end one-man rule through national legislative elections in October. He has already appointed himself President, and according to Pakistan's constitution, the President must give up control of the military, which would mean ceding the army's might--and his power base--to another general. But Musharraf has given no indication that...
...with a slow return to pre-recession, pre-9/11 passenger traffic. Although Delta lost $1.27 billion in 2001, a top government official says Burns' financing savvy had a calming effect on Wall Street last fall. "Male or female, if an executive can help an airline grow in the toughest economic environment in years," observes consultant Hamlin, "then he or she will be rewarded regardless of gender." That's what women have wanted for years...
Sherman Alexie is author of The Toughest Indian in the World, a collection of stories, and director of The Business of Fancydancing
...Clark were nearly defeated 200 years ago by snowstorms on the Lolo--the name apparently comes from Lawrence, a French-Canadian trapper killed by a grizzly in the area in the 1850s. Today Fairchild is nervously checking the weather reports. He has agreed to take me across the toughest, middle section of the trail--"but with this weather...
...Museum, the exhibition will travel around Britain. With duplicate prints, it is also running in France, Poland, Sweden and Germany and is due shortly in Norway, Russia, Hungary and Lebanon. But Arthus-Bertrand's work is about much more than pretty pictures. The Parisbased photographer has assigned himself "the toughest project" - the open-ended task of recording the earth's environment as a benchmark for the future and accompanying his photos with words and statistics that place his images in a decidedly environmentalist context. "My job is to do a very strong picture that will give an emotional response...