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...point where it may no longer be a movement at all. The ABC/Washington Post Iowa poll showing Huckabee's surge into a first-place tie with Romney was taken after Thompson received the NRLC endorsement. Thompson's improvement has cheered up his supporters and advisers, but some wonder whether it has come too late to carry him deep into the primaries. "I wish it were August," laments one outside consultant. "You get to the point in a campaign where it's definitely better to be up than it is to be down [in the polls]," adds a campaign aide...
...What It's Been Good For In the discussion with Meryl Streep, Robert Redford and TIME's Richard Corliss, Tom Cruise said, "Wars never solved anything" [Nov. 12]. Such a shockingly wrongheaded statement makes one wonder why anyone would want to hear his opinion on anything. One war should be enough in itself to refute his statement: the American Revolutionary War. It took years of fighting and the deprivation of American troops to defeat King George III and his minions. Negotiations could not have persuaded the English government to give up its colonies. In addition, the efforts needed...
Indeed, on many issues - a new pulp mill in Tasmania, tax cuts, school funding - Rudd has simply echoed the government. That tendency prompted long-serving Treasurer Peter Costello to declare: "The more I hear from Kevin Rudd, the more I wonder whether even Kevin Rudd wants a change of government...
...grand environmental-education park in the depressed southwestern English county of Cornwall--with the world's biggest greenhouses as its centerpiece. All he needed was the money. Smit turned to private funders and gave them a professional pitch. "I told them, 'We are going to build the Eighth Wonder of the World in a clay pit west of Cornwall, it's going to be wonderful, and you'll want to be a part of it,'" he says. "'Also, we have no business plan.'" Amazingly, the line worked. Smit scraped together more than $100 million, and after a final construction season...
...makes me wonder who actually times these things.” said Christine Y. Auh, also of the Business School. “It’s not really something you would think about...