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...this country, drugs and rebels. At the port, where he saw how Colombians detect and seize illegal drugs carried on speedboats or hidden inside industrial machinery, he met the widows and mothers of 12 military men and police officers slain in the line of duty. One of them broke down and sobbed emotionally as she told the president how her husband had been captured and tortured by rebels before he was killed. "You must help us," she sobbed. "I came to help," Clinton replied. As another woman broke down while telling her story, Clinton, ever the Great Empathizer, wiped...
...more than half of all those offenses. In the first six months of 2000, violent crime among juveniles increased 15% over 1999. A high school athlete, 17, attacked his teammates with a baseball bat in June, then biked home and fatally bludgeoned his mother. The month before, a teen broke into a house and knifed a woman to death because, he told police, "I wanted to experience killing." The same month, a 17-year-old boy hijacked a bus, forced the driver into a 19-hr. expressway odyssey and killed a passenger along the way. Also in May another teen...
Single mothers already know the job of raising a child alone is far from easy. Marianne first began considering single parenting in her late 30s, after she broke off a four-year relationship. "I decided I wasn't going to turn 40 without at least exploring having a child," she says. "I wanted it to be a conscious decision, as opposed to something that just didn't happen to me." Money was not an issue--she was part owner of a thriving software company and owned a condo in Cambridge, Mass., and a house on Cape Cod--but she still...
That did it. That broke her. She lurched, tears running down her cheeks, reached for Rae and pulled her close, holding her as if they might take her again. "I told myself I wouldn't cry," she said. The interpreter wept. Linda wept. I wept. Right then, right that minute, the heavens opened up, and it poured a monsoon starter kit on us, just an all-out Noah. Yeah, even the sky wept...
...later - as we see Al in tie and shirtsleeves listening to constituents and talking to a factory worker - "Al Gore decided that to change what was wrong in America, he had to fight for what was right... He made the environment his cause. Broke with his own party to support the Gulf War." (Suddenly it's 1991. Al Gore never ran a failed campaign for president in 1988, understand?) "Fought to reform welfare with work requirements and time limits." (And he was never vice president. He was never, ever in an administration with Bill Clinton. Capice...