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...same. Whereas organized labor put much of its money into TV ads in 1996, AFL-CIO political director Steve Rosenthal says, "A much greater percentage of our effort now is aimed at mobilizing voters on the ground--outside plants and work sites, with a lot of one-on-one contact, a lot of phone calls, weekend walks where union members go door-to-door in their communities." The National Rifle Association is buying subscriber lists to sporting magazines, names of people who have sold firearms at gun shows and other information to produce a database that goes beyond...
Soon after, the man called Qian and told him he would have to wait until Oct. 3 before he could move in. But this date came and went, and Qian was unable to contact the supposed landlord...
Also in the second half the function of words changes. Words, which had been a means of drowning the self, begin to provide solace. The Son writes a basically autobiographical novel that puts him in contact with a girl who revives him to some extent. When the estranged father reads the book, it enables communication at last, fifteen years after the accident. It allows the father to name his grief and thus attain power over it. For the Son, his literary persona becomes the edifice on which he will reconstruct his shattered life...
...funeral in September of Ester Awete, who died of an unexplained fever. Health workers now believe it was that ritual cleansing that launched the current outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. The hemorrhagic fever, which kills its victims within days of its onset, is transmitted via contact with any of the body fluids of an infected person. It's killed some 39 people over the past month, and right now 10 new cases of infection are reported daily...
...returned to his pushy, interjecting Round 1 roots - Bush closed with genial closing remarks he was determined, come hell or high dudgeon, to give. (And who doesn't think his closing "good luck" to Gore wasn't planned?) Like his opponent, he trawled to his questioners for eye contact, hoping for that decisive, Clintonian, feel-your-pain moment...