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Here one minute and gone the next, Zipcars — the cars you can rent for a few hours at a time — are gaining traction at Harvard...
...time of war, neither party can afford to look soft on national security. In the early days of the Cold War, John F. Kennedy won by promising to be even more aggressive than Eisenhower and Nixon in pushing back Communism. To gain traction this year, Kerry will have to fight back on foreign policy. But he needs a real response; simply saying that Bush mucked things up in Iraq isn?t enough. He has to have his own plan to win the war on terror, one that shows he would fight a smarter and even more aggressive campaign against...
Their idea quickly gained traction. Of the first 20 people he and Conover contacted, 18 were overwhelmingly enthusiastic, says Miller. In February 2003 the first board convened under the administrative umbrella of the Denver Foundation. It was a group of 10 men and women, including educators, lawyers, a nurse, a social worker, a community volunteer, former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm and Colorado Republican chairman Don Bain. "As diverse as the group is," says Sandra Shreve, 62, a current board member who donates from her modest educator's pension, "we were all there with a common goal: to help our community...
...calls to boycott his films haven't gained traction, but with his box-office draw in decline lately, it might be hard to tell if one was going...
...observers believe the turmoil has meant that Rice has been unable to assert the traditional role of National Security Adviser. After September 2002, for example, she set up four interagency task forces, chaired by her staff members, to examine various aspects of Iraq policy. The process never got much traction. Both Defense and State had their planning operations on Iraq (looking at very different things in very different ways), and according to a participant, Pentagon officials regularly skipped meetings of Rice's group that was planning for a postwar Iraq. Rumsfeld, for one, has not always treated Rice with...