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...tightrope, and holding our collective breath. Waiting for Alan Greenspan?s pile of rate cuts to kick in. Waiting for businesses to finish cleaning out their warehouses and slenderizing their payrolls, and ante up with some kind of capital investment. Waiting so we can all start getting richer again...
...noblesse oblige that propels some Kennedys toward elected office, or a sense of divine right? Do they represent the last gasp of an old order, or the first breath of a new one? "I definitely would not be where I am today if it weren't for my family name and connections," says Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy, 34, who used that name and those connections to shatter fund-raising records last year as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "I often joke that I'm the best example of why there should be campaign-finance reform...
...flinty ancestors, and when the valve came loose at the moorings, there wasn't much doubt about it. So my wife drove me to the Mayo Clinic, and they wheeled me into a bright blue industrial room and put a mask over my face, and I took a breath, and it was eight hours later...
...murder. There, after learning they were wanted by police on the mainland, they turned themselves over to local authorities. An extradition battle is now brewing: China wants the Tus back, and the Taiwanese police want to try them on the island. The Taiwanese in Nanhai aren't holding their breath. Says Chang Chin-shun, the secretary-general of the area's Taiwanese businessmen's association: "Taiwan wants the evidence, but in this case there's nothing we can do to help...
...Jessie began to bleed. But his heart still wasn't beating on its own. Twice the team stopped CPR, waiting for Jessie's heart to pump on its own. No pulse. Nurse Sandi Miller, who was keeping watch for the arrival of the arm, prayed under her breath as the team continued CPR, then paused for a third time. One doctor felt a faint carotid pulse, another felt a femoral pulse. The blood began to flow on its own. Outside, the ambulance had pulled up. "As soon as his limb came through the door, we got a heartbeat," Miller says...