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...MIKE LEAVITT, Health and Human Services Secretary, after the Bush Administration, in an effort to reduce welfare rolls, tightened rules that had in some cases allowed bed rest to qualify as work. Leavitt said many families "are not being challenged to find work...
LUOYANG, China—We met Mike in the bar of the Peony Hotel for drinks, marking the first time we had sat down to chat with another American in weeks. It’s not often that we run into foreigners in Luoyang—a city tucked away in this country’s interior, known more for its ancient history than for its present influence in current affairs. So whenever we do, it’s a happy chance to hobnob with one of our very own. Mike teaches English at a private school for young children...
...equally in the prisoners' interests to have someone die. According to Col Mike Bumgarner, who oversees the detention camps on a day-to-day basis, several prisoners have told him of a"vision, or a dream - implicitly a message from God - that if three detainees die it will attract enough attention so that they will all get out of Guantanamo." It needn't be by starvation: according to newly declassified docouments, two prisoners, one of whom was al-Shehri, tried to commit suicide on May 18 by swallowing hoarded anti-anxiety medication. Those attempts triggered a search, which in turn...
...reform. It's a highly unusual road show designed to get the Senate, which passed a plan to Bush's liking earlier this spring, closer to their more hard-line position. But a more subtle game may be afoot among Republicans, designed to strengthen the compromise plan of Rep. Mike Pence - first reported on TIME.com - that leans in the direction of the hard-line House; it would crank up border security, have a modest guest worker program and insist that illegals leave the country before reapplying for citizenship...
...Translation: The Senate bill has to come a lot closer to what we want. Meanwhile, in the basement of the Capitol, Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana spoke with TIME.com before holding the latest in a series of meetings with Senate hard-liner Jon Kyl of Arizona, a kindred spirit to the House Republicans...