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DAMAGE REPORT U.N. investigators said U.S. air strikes on an Afghan village killed some 90 civilians, including 60 children. The report fueled Afghan frustration over the high civilian death toll and prompted a U.S. investigation...
Cindy started messing with people's expectations long before she had so much as glanced in the direction of John McCain or public life. The junior Rodeo Queen with the gold Mercedes graduated from USC (University of Spoiled Children, her husband likes to call it) with a master's in special education and proceeded to teach children with Down syndrome and other disabilities in one of Phoenix's poorer schools. When she met a dashing war hero at a cocktail party in Hawaii, she was 24 but said she was three years older; he said he was four years younger...
After a string of miscarriages, the couple went on to have three children, and the experience of becoming a mother, Cindy says, propelled her deeper into her relief work. In 1991, when she was touring Mother Teresa's orphanage in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she met an infant with a cleft palate so severe, the nuns weren't able to feed her properly, and they feared she couldn't be saved. Cindy decided to take the baby home with her to get treatment and concluded during the long flight that the child would be joining their family. She informed her husband only...
...disputes the standard separate-lives narrative of the McCain marriage, though there have been signs of tension in the past. They decided to raise their children in Arizona, she says, because her roots there were deep and they could give the kids a normal childhood. He was home every weekend, she says, and now she's urgent, insistent: "I want people to understand, he was not a father who was from afar. He was very involved with his kids and in our relationship. I felt like we saw more of him by living out in Arizona because when...
...constantly, as well as with eldest daughter Meghan and sons Jimmy, a Marine who returned from deployment in Iraq in February, and Jack, who will be a senior at the Naval Academy. They too will be stepping out in Minneapolis for the first time, along with McCain's three children from his first marriage...