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...stock market and the booming economy are great, but they're only great for a few people, and the rest of us are riding the tide. When the bubble bursts, we'll need some politicians who are willing to make some tough choices about the way this nation is going to work. We'll need people who are willing to be real politicians, instead of just playing them...
...work force, and we are demanding our rights," says Coelho, who serves as chairman of the President's Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities and was one of the primary authors of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. "There is still job discrimination out there, but the tide is turning...
...grow up and screw up too. For Volcom, the business plan does not go much further than staying core--and respecting that stone. "I'm living the life that I always dreamed of living," says Woolcott. "Nobody's getting rich. Nobody owns a house. But I know that low tide is in about 45 minutes, and I'm gonna go surfing." At 10 a.m. on a Thursday, that's core...
...Stoppard has won most awards out there, and he was knighted in 1997; but he is worried that his work is like "building sand castles"--with Shakespearean immortality far from guaranteed. "I'm thinking of the tide coming in and sweeping it all away," he admits. "History is stiff with writers who have been praised in terms exceeding anything my generation has received, and you think, 'Well, where are they now?' It's a chastening thought." But not one, fortunately, that keeps him from his desk for long...
...says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "And Democrats want it as short as possible. Lott is still trying to land somewhere in between." So far, the new Senate looks a lot like the old House -- Republicans running the agenda, and conservatives running the Republicans. And that seemingly inexorable rightward tide has the White House betting that the long national nightmare will come with a very long coda...