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Ensign, Sen. John • God was repeatedly invoked in 2008 break-up letter to mistress from, after the writing of which said mistress was continually pursued by • God's response to is imagined by Vanity Fair writer Nell Scovell • parents of gave family of mistress of $96,000 - not, mind you, as any kind of hush money, but rather, according to statement by lawyer for, because the "gifts are consistent with a pattern of generosity by the Ensign family...
...That's the question that many of their allies are asking more and more, as the drive for health-care reform enters a make-or-break month with new signs of problems ahead. The party's liberal base is increasingly insistent that the bill include a strong, government-run public option, like a program similar to Medicare that would serve as an alternative to private insurers. Republicans are calling it a deal killer, which means any bill with a strong government-financed option would necessarily have to go forward without any significant GOP support. But diluting the bill too much...
...thought it out all wrong. Perhaps people can be strong in the broken places, as Hemingway once intimated. Most importantly, perhaps we are only broken because we care for others—and maybe that makes the grief worth it. His was a life of sacrifice, one where you break because there is someone worth hurting for. And maybe this brokenness is exactly what makes my grandfather one of the few people I wholly admire...
...with this task, and I delight in the weight of its importance. That’s when I know that the past is not so lost. That’s when I know that he has fixed me—that we can only be whole because we break for each other...
...also defers, at least unless the Arias negotiations break down, the question of whether the U.S. should squeeze the Micheletti regime by cutting off aid - always a dicey prospect when a country as poor as Honduras is involved. Washington funnels about $50 million a year to Honduras in social and military assistance, much of which the State Department put on hold in response to the coup; and in 2005 it signed a five-year, $215 million development grant for the country. Because of the coup, the World Bank has already suspended $270 million in pending credit for Honduras as well...