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...explain how it all works, Iowa Secretary of State Chet Culver is going around the state holding practice caucuses. At his workshop last Tuesday at the library in Clive, a suburb seven miles west of Des Moines, about 50 people showed up, several of them young enough to be my parents. Most of these folks already knew how caucuses work and just wanted a refresher course. Clive needs to get itself a bowling alley...
Harvard officials yesterday declined to explain how the newly-announced negotiations would differ from past attempts at compromise...
Grimes, 26, a medic who had been traveling in the next humvee, jumped out and began applying a tourniquet to Michael's arm, as close to the wrist as she could, to stop the bleeding. Later, a colonel would explain to Michael that the shrapnel range of an unimpeded grenade is about 15 feet in all directions. In this case, the combination of Michael's hand and the bench below it contained enough of the blast to save the life of everyone in the back of the truck. You can read the full details of the incident in "Portrait...
...saving the lives of their colleagues. "All I did was follow my instincts," he says. The day before he left Germany, his nurse, Captain Nina McCoy from San Antonio, Texas, held his arm and walked him up and down the hallway for exercise. Michael, 57, was trying to explain to her--and perhaps to himself--that it was good that he was at his age when this happened, saying he couldn't imagine what it was like for younger people who had yet to figure out what life was about. McCoy then told the story of another nurse...
There are at least two ways to explain the Bush Administration's attitude toward our ballooning federal budget deficit. Perhaps the President doesn't care and is willing for the country to suffer huge deficits as long as he gets what he wants--re-election and selective tax advantages. Or maybe he is operating with inadequate knowledge. The President has said he doesn't read newspapers, so his access to information must be limited. In preparing for the war in Iraq, the Bush team purposefully ignored any views that conflicted with its own. In discussing the federal deficit, does President...