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...grandchildren to the zoo quite a bit and I noticed that it had deteriorated," says Nora Harris, who filed the suit three years ago. "That's what got me interested...
...next few weeks, he is still a dead man inside. Syamsudin has pushed through a crowd of fellow refugees to tell his story, describing in patient detail how a visitation of almost unimaginable brutality destroyed his remote village of Sangai in Indonesia's Kalimantan province. "All my children, my grandchildren were killed," he mourns. "They cut off their heads and then cut them up and took them away to eat. There were a lot of Madurese in Sangai. Now 95% of us are dead...
Some people just have a way with babies. Unfortunately, it is often someone other than the baby's parents. My aunt Lena, for instance, has an uncanny ability to read a baby's cries. Lena, who has six grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren, has run our family's unofficial "baby boot camp" for three generations. New parents in our clan will show up at her house with their eyes pinwheeling from exhaustion, only to have Lena quickly dispense her diagnosis: "This baby's so tired. Why on earth don't you put him to bed?" If she likes...
...just yet. "Many of you have talked about the need to pay down our national debt. I have listened, and I agree. My budget proposal pays down an unprecedented amount of public debt. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to act now, and I hope you will join me to pay down $2 trillion in debt during the next 10 years." Right. Good idea. Very prudent. Now the tax cut, right...
...your retirement. In Ocean Springs, a town on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a well-meaning couple worked for decades without ever indulging themselves or managing to save. Instead, they sent monthly checks, paid apartment deposits, covered medical, utility and tax bills, and clothed and fed their grown children and grandchildren. They once even made a $750 car payment when a daughter vacationing in Spain called home to complain that her Thunderbird might be repossessed if they did not come up with the money immediately. Only when the father suffered a massive heart attack did the two parents realize they simply...