Word: grass
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McCain plans to mobilize the grass-roots activists enlisted for the campaign-reform bill and his presidential bid to push these causes. But many members of Congress, re-elected on how much bacon they bring home, will fight to keep earmarking even more fiercely than they did soft money. Says a senior Senate G.O.P. aide: "McCain will be able to make his points on 20/20, but it's highly unlikely he'll get legislation passed...
Engel's trial, expected to begin in May or June, comes at a time when new attention has been focused on the war years by a book, Crab Walk, by Nobel-prizewinning author Günter Grass. The work deals with the 1945 sinking of the ship Wilhelm Gustloff by a Russian submarine as it steamed from Danzig (present day Gdansk, Poland) back to Germany. More than 7,000 passengers, mostly German women and children, drowned in the incident. The book, which tops best-seller lists in Germany, has sold more than 300,000 copies and has inspired front-page...
...high school student named Boone helped out. He was incredibly quiet and never talked; he just seemed to paint and to stare. But after someone in our group blurted out that I was Miss Harvard, he suddenly became more interested in speaking with me. Chewing on a piece of grass and talking in a southern drawl, he encouraged me as I twirled a broom like it was a baton. Later, when his brother came to pick him up and asked what the best part of his day was, Boone said it was meeting Miss Harvard. His brother, ignorant...
...anyone doubts the ardor of grass-roots support for the anti-American militancy in southern Afghanistan, Kandahar's cemetery for al-Qaeda fighters bears unequivocal testimony. Hundreds of mourners have descended on the graveyard from as far away as Mazar-i-Sharif, Kabul and Uruzgan province. What began as daily homages have grown into all-night vigils. Men, women and children sleep by the graves. Devotees recite the Koran throughout the night. The paralyzed, ill and blind flock to the site seeking miracle cures, which many claim to receive. Men mumble, repeating scripture until they fall into a trance, swaying...
...anyone doubts the ardor of grass-roots support for the anti-American militancy in southern Afghanistan, Kandahar's cemetery for al-Qaeda fighters bears unequivocal testimony. Hundreds of mourners have descended on the graveyard from as far away as Mazar-i-Sharif, Kabul and Uruzgan province. What began as daily homages have grown into all-night vigils. Men, women and children sleep by the graves. Devotees recite the Koran throughout the night. The paralyzed, ill and blind flock to the site seeking miracle cures, which many claim to receive. Men mumble, repeating scripture until they fall into a trance, swaying...