Word: lay
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...Sunday, Ralph Reed rests -- at least he tries to. But on the night of April 30, his two-year-old, Christopher, lay awake for hours, badly sunburned from a picnic, leaving Reed little time for sleep in the modern, red brick house in Chesapeake, Virginia, that he and his wife Jo Anne recently purchased. Reed struggles for time with his family. "I get home as often as I can, even if it's only for a day," says the 33-year-old father of three. Still, the executive director of the formidable Christian Coalition has another mission, and at dawn...
...McNamara's War," as it was known at the time, does not rest squarely upon his shoulders, although it was evident to the audience last week that real guilt lay behind each one of McNamara's pained confessions. The man who repeatedly and confidently predicted victory for his nation now bears the burden of history and the casualties of 58,000 American lives...
...They drink because they think it facilitatestheir social life," says Epps. "That syndrome isnot a problem you can lay at the door ofcolleges...
...other Southeast Asian nations, such as Thailand and Malaysia, were able to strengthen themselves and thereby never succumb to communist aggression. The Vietnam War, though a defeat, helped stem the tide of Communism in Southeast Asia and therefore contributed to our victory in the Cold War. McNamara's mistake lay not in fighting the Vietnam War but rather in losing...
Correspondent Pat Cole obtained one of only two interviews granted by the family of Baylee Almon, the one-year-old infant whose picture, taken as she lay cradled in a fireman's arms, has become an icon of national trauma. Cole, who usually reports for Time out of Los Angeles, has interviewed survivors of earthquake, fire and anarchy. "The only way to talk to people in that state is to let them know you have total sympathy for them," he says. "In this case, believe me, it wasn't hard...