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...merely contemplating reform of both programs was almost completely irresponsible. He told a Des Moines audience of aged Iowa trade-unionists how important those entitlements had been to his 95-year-old mother, but he had nothing to say about the financial burdens they will place on his grandchildren. He did not even acknowledge the actuarial crises in Social Security and Medicare; he did not propose any reforms at all. Later, over lunch, he indicated that Social Security and Medicare should stay pretty much the way they are; a balanced budget, a growing economy--once the bloodthirsty, bloviating Bushies...
Rawson is survived by his four daughters, Anne M. Hall, Zita Legere, Gail Potheir and Donna Rawson, his sisters Frances Hickey and Ann M. Friel, 15 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren...
...pair of five-kilogram suitcases packed with explosives detonated in the trunks of separate taxis in southern Bombay. They chose instead to marvel at the city's indomitable resilience. MUMBAI BOUNCES BACK, BUSINESS AS USUAL, trumpeted the Hindustan Times. "Bloody Monday has already become another tale to tell your grandchildren...
According to a former secretary to Saddam, the strongman's second wife Samira is in Beirut with the children from her first marriage and her grandchildren. Saddam and Samira are rumored to have had a son named Ali, but the family butler says there is no such person. (Saddam does have a nephew named Ali.) The young man mistakenly known on the Baghdad street as Ali, according to the butler, is actually Samira's grandson Saif, 20. The butler and the former secretary claim that the marriage contract between Saddam and Samira specified that she not bear him any children...
...fires of the past 10 days, that troglodyte house is all that is left of the Vérets' summer retreat. Flames laid waste to everything, leaving only the skeletons of a few cork oaks and the aluminum kitchen sink from a trailer where their vacationing daughter and grandchildren had been staying. "It looks like Verdun in 1916," she says. "The devastation is terrifying." Five dead tourists, 19 wounded firefighters, 30,000 hectares destroyed - spurred by unusually high winds, the worst fires in more than a decade in the desiccated south of France have taken an awful toll. In northeastern...