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Dates: during 2000-2009
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But these critics may be underestimating his strengths. As with Hillary Clinton, this is not his first rodeo (a phrase that rolls smoothly in his accent). Like Barack Obama, he is poised and compelling. Like Rudy Giuliani, he can fall back on bold self-confidence in the face of tricky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Role for Fred Thompson | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

In the short term, there may even be potential benefits for Bloomberg. As with any merger between two sprawling companies (although almost all of Reuters' revenue comes from its financial services business, it also feeds news, TV footage and photographs to the world's media organizations and Thomson also has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Does Rivals' Merging Mean For Bloomberg? | 5/15/2007 | See Source »

Meanwhile, it may be a process of trial and error for most migraineurs--and their physicians. Chances are, however, that more and more of them will, like Schipper, eventually hit on the combination of medications and lifestyle changes that works for them. In his case, careful attention to his triggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Science of Headaches | 5/8/2007 | See Source »

Whenever an experiment crowded an engineering exercise, he'd jettison the experiment. When a prime-time broadcast was scheduled for shortly before the crew was to execute a tricky rendezvous, he scrubbed the TV show. "No TV until after the rendezvous," he pronounced. The ground objected but Schirra held firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Wally Schirra Said, "Go to Hell" | 5/4/2007 | See Source »

Klein plans to greatly expand the number of transfer schools and YABCS over the remaining 2 1/2 years of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration. Replicating successful programs is always tricky, but in this case there's a peculiar obstacle. Under state- and federal-accountability rules, schools full of students who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stopping the Dropout Exodus | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

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