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...futile or even dangerous. He had already agreed to suppress one type of liability reform opposed by the doctors, and Clinton's advisers feared that more concessions were inevitable. They were right: by midsummer, price controls were gone, abandoned in favor of caps on insurance premiums. "We could kneel on broken glass and give the A.M.A. everything it wanted," said one task-force member, "and still they will oppose it. They are going to push us as far as possible, and then they are just going to screw...
...three children to Conyers, where they now run a religious-memorabilia shop. "She's not here to entertain us," Gabriela says of the Virgin. "She's here to give us a message." That message, offered by Fowler's apparition, is simply -- or divinely -- this: "America, pick up your rosary. Kneel down and pray...
...government the Founding Fathers designed could levy taxes and raise an army, but it could not do these or any other things in the name of a Higher Power. We salute our flag, not kneel before it; we pay taxes, not tithes. By stripping government of supernatural authority, the Founding Fathers created a zone of freedom around each individual human conscience -- or, for that matter, religious sect. They demystified government and reduced it to something within reach of human comprehension, protest and change. Surely the Republicans, committed as they are to "limited government," ought to honor the secular spirit that...
...cloudless Mexican morning, Carlos Fuentes gazes into the gilded nave of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, a colonial church built over the ruins of the massive pyramid at Cholula. As the faithful kneel in prayer, the author of The Old Gringo and The Death of Artemio Cruz shakes his head in wonder. "It's a great example of Mexican culture -- the Indian and the Spanish religion coming together," he says. "What more perfect symbol than a pyramid topped by a church devoted to the Virgin Mary...
...Bosnian Muslim who fled from Zvornik, describes how he and two friends were on their way to the bakery to buy bread when they were nabbed by Serbian soldiers of the federal army and subjected to a night of abuse. Threatened with beatings, they were forced to kneel, butt their heads against a wall and sing songs impugning the virtue of Muslim women. "We sang," he says, "but they beat us anyway...