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...make the choices to improve their own lives. Perhaps to counter an impression that he would not be up to the job, Bush explained that his decision-making process would include soliciting advice from advisors and others on his "team," emphasizing his role as chief executive officer of the second-largest state in the nation. Of the two candidates, Bush also had the more memorable one-liners...
...should have been a celebration of unity, but it turned into a shocking tableau of discord. Louisiana bishop Dan Solomon was presiding over the General Conference of the United Methodist Convention, a contentious but usually joyous quadrennial meeting to plot the future of America's second-largest Protestant denomination. Solomon had proved an amiable and unflappable moderator, but now his voice cracked. "I speak to you with anguish about what is about to unfold," he said. "I bury my head in prayer. I cannot witness what is about to occur." As 5,000 delegates looked on, Solomon's head...
...destination is Gudermes, Chechnya's second-largest city, which recently surrendered to Russian troops without a shot. Now, as Russian guns, warplanes and missiles reduce to rubble what was left of Gudermes after the 1994-96 war, Russian officials talk increasingly of turning this grim railway town with a peacetime population of 38,000 into Chechnya's new capital. No problem, says a Russian airborne general, as we stand in a forward base just outside Gudermes listening to the steady rumble of heavy artillery and long salvos of Grad missiles. "We could establish the capital on this hill...
...also] got a record of leadership. Texas is the second-largest state in the nation," Bush said...
Harvard's second-largest licensed apparel manufacturer has announced that it will be the first company to comply with the University's new full disclosure policy...