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...House last year, thanks to a redistricting plan engineered by DeLay, George W. Bush would not have been the first re-elected President since F.D.R. to gain seats in Congress. And DeLay has always been solicitous of G.O.P. Representatives as individuals--adjusting the House schedule to accommodate a daughter's recital, knowing who needs a place to smoke and who is having a family crisis, making sure there is pizza in his office to tide members over during late-night votes. Given the majority leader's high profile in the intensely partisan atmosphere of the House, many Republicans agree with...
...feeling that he stepped on the shoes of some people, and then I learned from people at his funeral that he had been receiving a lot of threats." Dizon's precautions proved hopelessly inadequate. On the evening of Nov. 27-a day that poignantly began with him telling his daughter Kyla that he had to go to work if the family was to have enough money for a meal out and a trip to the toy store-he took three bullets from a passing motorcyclist while standing outside a mobile-phone shop. He died half an hour later...
...GRANTED. To CUI YU HU, 104, stranded Chinese grandmother who has been living illegally in Australia since 1996; permanent residency, after urging from the Chinese government; in Melbourne. Hu, who has been living with her adopted Japanese daughter, was caught in diplomatic limbo when her recent application to stay was refused, while no airline was willing to transport the centenarian back to her home in China's Xinjiang province. Hu praised Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone for her compassion, saying, "She has a good heart. She will live very long...
...DIED. TERESA WRIGHT, 86, Hollywood actress who achieved the never-duplicated feat of winning an Oscar nomination for each of her first three films; in New Haven, Connecticut. After debuting as Bette Davis' daughter in 1941's The Little Foxes, she played Lou Gehrig's wife in The Pride of the Yankees and won an Oscar for her role as Greer Garson's daughter-in-law in Mrs. Miniver. Her wholesome but refined screen presence graced some of the '40s best movies, including Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt and William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives...
...nothing about family breakdown is ever simple. In Sue's case, it's her own daughter who's shutting her out, in retaliation for all manner of mistakes and indiscretions that Sue insists she never committed. At one point she spent, she says, $A5,000 on legal fees trying to win the right to visit the kids - if only to make sure they're okay - but ran out of money and couldn't pursue the claim. The children's father is also excluded. "The problem is that the custodial parent can brainwash the children," says Sue, "tell them things that...