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...threatened to veto the Kennedy-McCain bill, which provides patients with a great deal of leeway in suing their HMOs, casting his lot instead with a more HMO-friendly version sponsored by GOP Senator Bill Frist. It sounds like a recipe for stalemate, but after years of arguing and finger-pointing over their failure to compromise, Capitol Hill lawmakers can scarcely afford to let a chance for indemnification pass them by. White House observers say Bush is open to negotiations...
...Keren jumped and was so stunned that she did not see the ring box. Benjie had to put it on her finger and ask, "Will you marry me?" She replied, "Yeah, but what are you doing here...
...time they spend together, they regularly attend church. One day, as they were just finishing services, they were praying together before leaving. As he finished reciting the prayer, he slipped the ring on her finger, saying, "And please bless me, personally, that as I ask Hillary to marry me she will say 'yes.'" Afterward, I got down on one knee and, fortunately for me, got my wish...
...beginning, writing is difficult. Maybe it's just me; my handwriting was the bane of my schoolteachers and has gotten progressively more illegible ever since. The thickness of the chrome-colored Chatpen doesn't help. Worse, my normal writing grip - I use my middle finger to hold up the pen - obstructs the camera. As I try out a new grip, my first scribbles are ugly scratches. Wiebe encourages me to write large, looping letters. This helps considerably. Soon, I can write comfortably at normal speed...
...During the spring of 1951, CIA recruiters came on the campus and made all sorts of interviews. [Our class] had escaped service in the second world war and we had a little built of a guilt complex," Kane says. "When Uncle Sam came and pointed his finger, we just said yes." Kane, who went on to be officer in command in Dakar, Algiers and Lisbon, says he took the job out of a commitment to civic duty. An added perk was the starting $33,000 salary, "more money than I ever could have imagined...