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...While no one knows exactly how the overseas vote breaks down, Republicans are believed to have a traditional 3-to-1 advantage, thanks in part to large numbers of overseas troops who tend to vote Republican. "I think you can count on a lot of votes for the President here," says Caryln Manning, head of Republicans Abroad in the Philippines. But Democrats argue that there are lots of expats who are against Bush but might not have bothered to register yet?not to mention the possibility that war-weary soldiers might now oppose the Commander in Chief who sent them...
...rebels aren't suicidal. The Marines must seek out the insurgents and monitor the places where they hide, which is why these Marines are hunkered down in a bullet-pocked building overlooking the Grand Mosque, scanning the streets and rooftops for rebel gunmen. It's exasperating work. "They tend not to get us because they're lousy shots," says Sergeant Jeremy Barone. "We tend not to get them because they run away...
...like them to be greedy, pushy or overly aggressive," says Sara Laschever, co-author of Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide. "Once adulthood is reached, studies are conclusive that neither men nor other women like women who are too aggressive." In addition, women tend to view negotiations as having two goals: getting the result you want and maintaining (or improving) your relationship with the person on the other side. For example, when you're negotiating your salary with your boss, explains Lois Frankel, author of Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, you want to preserve...
...shifts were filled with 100 volunteers. Republicans, like Democrats, say this is an operation unlike any they have ever seen. "The grass-roots effort did not exist in 2000," says Richard Finan, a former G.O.P. state senate president who is working with a group called Catholics for Bush. "We tend to think grass roots is less sexy, but it does...
Nevertheless, the primary message of Harvard’s adoption of the sustainability principles is: To a degree far beyond what is currently actualized, environmental stewardship and cost-effectiveness are mutually reinforcing. There is still the question of those small up-front costs—which, surprisingly, tend to be not for materials but rather for sustainability research and planning, which cannot be fully funded through reinvestment of cost savings. We will need investments in rigorous research into innovative planning and design alternatives on everything from renewable energy to on-site water treatment...