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...their support for President Bush's war policy. When asked about the war, Mike Huckabee would talk about the strain on the Arkansas National Guard. Mitt Romney would say he wanted the troops home "as soon as possible." Rudy Giuliani speculated openly that the so-called surge might fail, saying "we have to be ready for that...
...their allies reply: If you still think this is just about sex, you are missing the whole point. The message, they say, is about integrity, being whole people, heart and soul and body. Wilson himself has said virginity pledges have a downside: "It heaps guilt upon them. If they fail, you've made it worse for them," he said. "Who is perfect in this world? One mistake doesn't mean it's all over." Everyone here has a story, and very few are in black and white. One man is dancing with his younger daughter, wishing his older girl...
...plan to overhaul the entire air-traffic-control system. Four years later, nothing had been done. "The air-traffic system is overloaded," declared Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota. It was the fall of 1985 when he demanded that the FAA begin dealing with the atc dinosaur. But he would fail to hold the agency's feet to the fire, and his House Aviation Subcommittee would allow the FAA to waste hundreds of millions of dollars and more than a decade of time...
...charges by infuriated husbands, the cultural pressures some face remain sufficiently great that many will continue turning to hymenoplasty to restore the semblance of chastity. Many times, however, the ruse may all be for naught: Saint-Leger notes notes that 30% to 40% of both original and reconstructed hymens fail to produce the virginity-confirming bleeding when ruptured by penetration, anyway...
Shelf space in a chain like Whole Foods is the holy grail for culinary entrepreneurs. Most fail. Whole Foods evaluates hundreds of new products every month and rejects about 85% of them...