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...reduce everything to clear-cut choices stems from his decision to quit drinking in 1986, when he woke up one day and realized that drinking was undisciplined and bad and that not drinking was disciplined and good. Few choices in life are so clear, so difficult, but the hardest thing he ever did also worked for him. This ally suggests that Bush's decision to render his own life into a fundamental choice feeds his tendency to apply a similarly rigid template to other difficult calls...
Widowed 17 years ago, when her only child was still an infant, Khatol (women in her tribe prefer to use only their first name) was among those hardest hit by the Taliban's ban on women's employment. Although she is better educated than most Afghan women--as few as 5.6% are literate--Khatol's options under the fundamentalist regime became as narrow as those for many of Kabul's 30,000-plus other war widows. The Taliban's restrictions on its female population were infamously harsh: girls could not attend school; and women, except for some doctors and nurses...
...yard signs from 1988. "I don't think the Democrats would find a better candidate," said Herb Goettsch, who came to a fund raiser in Bettendorf wearing a 14-year-old boater that Gephardt autographed the last time they met. But first, the House has to be won. The hardest-working man in politics has to take it one November at a time...
Drought Severe food shortages caused by two years of drought may kill as many as 300,000 people in southern Africa in the next six months, according to the U.N. Countries hardest hit include Malawi, Zambia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Mozambique...
...health department's Tom Pope. "They've been raising a lot of Cain." Officials in Houston's Harris County are having the opposite problem. Trucks there head out five or six nights a week, says Sandy Kachur of the county's public-health department, but residents want more. "Our hardest task has been letting people know we're not a pest-control company," Kachur says. "We're looking for disease." For both counties the stakes will probably rise. The Centers for Disease Control is predicting that human cases of West Nile, currently at 251, could reach as many...