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...expected departures are among a host of new signs suggesting that Bush's sixth year in office--the last one before midterm elections and a turn in attention toward the 2008 race to succeed him--will be very different from his first five. The sunny optimist who loved to think big is now facing polls in which for the first time a majority of Americans say they do not trust him. "It's like it's twilight in America," says one frustrated conservative...
...fraction of the estimated 250,000 HIV-positive Rwandans who need food, housing, clean water and schools as well as medicine. The Global Fund subsidizes the drugs, but donors are reluctant to pay for the calories, arguing that food aid is never-ending and "unsustainable." Farmer, ever the optimist, is undismayed. "You start down this slippery slope," he says, "but it's a slippery slope that leads to better health care for poor people, so I say, Let's slide down...
...such intelligence as an actress and it’s a very tough part. It’s tough to play an optimist convincingly. And as an actress I knew she could walk that very thin line between optimism and realism. We tend to think that optimists are not very bright…but all the great spiritual thinkers know that the ultimate intelligence is to go for the light, and that’s why Julianne’s so great...
...upshot is that older men are running day-care centers, word-processing firms and pet businesses and senior women are operating farming companies, residential-construction firms and plumbing outfits. Ellen Freudenheim, author of Looking Forward: An Optimist's Guide to Retirement, attributes many of the reversals to what she calls gender envy. "Women want the power that the men have, and men want to experience the better interpersonal relationships that females have," says Freudenheim...
...Bush remains forever an optimist but that even he recognizes his limits. When he went biking with Lance Armstrong in Crawford earlier this month, the two, at one point, approached a particularly steep and rocky hill. Bush "wouldn't even contemplate going up it," recalls a senior Bush official. For his part, Armstrong cruised up the incline. A White House military aide made it part of the way up but "Lance just buried him" and Bush was in awe of his stamina. The fittest president since Teddy Roosevelt will need more than his share of endurance in the coming weeks...