Word: wouldn
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...November's mid-term elections. Last summer, for instance, when Emanuel tried to convince Heath Shuler, former star quarterback at the University of Tennessee, to run for Congress from his native North Carolina, he had to make a hard sell. Shuler said he was worried he wouldn?t get enough time with his two young children if he was constantly shuttling back and forth from Capitol Hill, so Emanuel had more than a dozen congressional Democrats with kids call Shuler. Then he barraged Shuler himself with more than 40 calls over two weeks, just to prove it was possible...
...Great Qing Sea" was the mapmaker's way of avoiding the taboo of appearing loyal to the previous dynasty. Liu has submitted a sample of the map for carbon dating, but has not yet received the results. Still, even if the bamboo paper's age checks out, it wouldn't rule out a forgery, as old paper can be used to make a new map. Above all, adds Liu, he thinks his treasure is real because "most petty criminals wouldn't have the knowledge to produce this map ... I believe concrete evidence will surface to prove I'm right...
...know that you wouldn't like it? I don't. I just know that I'm satisfied with my typewriter. I've been typing on it 50 years, and I don't see any reason to change...
HUMILITY, CONSCIENCE, THE USE OF POWER--THESE ARE THEMES YOU'VE DISCUSSED FOR YEARS. My mission has not changed, because I don't think the world has changed. In the beginning, I thought, Maybe my witness will be received, and things will change. But they don't. Otherwise we wouldn't have had Rwanda and Darfur and Cambodia and Bosnia. Human nature cannot be changed in one generation...
...recycled Nike shoes. "Bill [Ford] has come out and said, 'We're going to do more compelling and emotional design,' and he's sent that message internally," says J Mays, group vice president of design. "That's taken the shackles off and allows us to do product we probably wouldn't have been allowed to do five years ago." Among those bolder models: the 2006 Fusion sedan and the 2007 Edge crossover vehicle, due out later this year...