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...step aside as majority leader if an Austin grand jury indicts him in a campaign-finance probe. But despite a public show of solidarity, Republican Congressmen tell TIME there was a bitter debate behind closed doors over whether to change the rule for the man known as "the Hammer," and it has left some Republicans angry and concerned that their party looks arrogant. During a private caucus last Wednesday, more than 200 G.O.P. lawmakers argued for four hours over a proposal by Texas Representative Henry Bonilla, a DeLay loyalist, to do away with an 11-year-old party rule requiring...
...build a kitty that can be rolled over from year to year and can be used to pay for unreimbursed medical expenses. Bush wants to boost homeownership too by making nothing-down loans available to low-income buyers and by helping anyone who is willing to pick up a hammer and contribute sweat equity...
...pushing the Sudanese close to a peace deal after three years of negotiations. Another candidate is CONDOLEEZZA RICE. As National Security Adviser, she has dealt with virtually every foreign leader who matters but draws her influence more from her proximity to the Oval Office than her ability to hammer out disputes between the Administration's long-divided factions...
...Kerry campaign seized on the 2003 chronology as a chance to hammer the Administration for its biggest mistake in prosecuting the war: its decision to use an invasion force that proved too small to secure critical sites in the aftermath of the war. The Bush team's explanations failed to solve the riddle. First, Pentagon officials produced a satellite photo from March 17, 2003, showing two Iraqi trucks lingering outside an al-Qaqaa bunker. The photo proves that there was activity by the former regime at the site sometime between the final IAEA inspection and the arrival of U.S. troops...
...western port city of Maizuru, 36 elderly tourists and their driver were stranded on the roof of their bus overnight as the overflowing Yura River swirled around them. The passengers later told Japan's Kyodo News service that they broke the windows of the bus with a hammer and then sang the 1961 hit Ue o Muite Arukou (known abroad as the Sukiyaki song) to muster courage. At one point, the water rose to stomach level. (All were safely rescued by helicopter and boat on Thursday morning.) Also stranded were 167 people aboard the Kaiwo Maru, a sail-powered merchant...