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...found her classified ad on the Internet and flew her over last March for a trip to a fertility clinic. Pregnant with one more baby than Wheeler and Berman wanted, Beasley says she has received only $1,000 of the $20,000 they originally agreed to pay her. The fate of the twins she's carrying but does not want or have legal rights to will be decided by a California court, in one of the most bizarre surrogacy cases...
...Odds that a defibrillator, similar to the one in Vice President Cheney, will suffer the same fate...
...despite hearty assurances of continued support from GOP leaders, there was murmured speculation that Helms wants to avoid the fate of 98-year-old Strom Thurmond, who has effectively relinquished his duties to an army of aides. Helms fights hard to maintain a vigorous image: Battles with prostate cancer and peripheral neuropathy have compromised his health in recent years, but his often biting wit and political prowess are still very much on display...
...body weakened, I thought of my grandfather who had died of thirst in a communist jail. I wondered whether I, in my freedom, was about to suffer a similar fate. Perhaps I was being punished for my lack of filial duty. I had contravened the ancient Chinese custom that dictates: "When your parents are still alive, don't wander far from home...
...warned us), and took refuge in the apartments of local people, who took us in without question. There, a few nights after the massacre, I watched Gorbachev talk vaguely but ominously on TV of the need to introduce controls over the media. Gorbachev's performance that January sealed his fate. Instead of investigating the attack, dismissing and punishing top commanders, he buried his head in the sand. The KGB, the military and the party leaders did not miss the message: Try a power play and you will not be punished. Succeed and he may back...