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...threw him in, to teach the boy to swim. Kawamoto struggled and tried to grab the side of the boat, but his father pushed him off with a pole. Only when the boy sank did his father pull him back. "I asked him why he did not help me sooner. I thought my father was trying to drown me. Later I understood that he was really trying to save me, that I would only learn to swim if I came that close to death...
...they might not back Bush's plan to create personal accounts as part of his Social Security reform. (Bush aides say he will try to shore up support this week with more details on his plan.) And conservatives were demanding a battle on the judicial nominations right now. "The sooner the better," says a G.O.P. aide. In case Frist, who insiders say has his eye on the White House, didn't get the message, the aide added, "If he's serious about running for President, then this is a crucial issue." --By Massimo Calabresi. With reporting by Perry Bacon...
...have my foot examined. I can see camouflaged vehicles coming and going, their lights off. At the hospital, two male Vietnamese doctors who have been briefed about my arrival lay me on a table to take an X-ray of my foot--or at least they try to. No sooner have I lain down than the air raid sirens blare and I have to be helped into the hospital's bomb shelter, now filling rapidly with doctors and those patients who can be moved...
Most people—among all age, economic, and ethnic demographics—who initially support the concept of private accounts change their minds when they learn more about the likely consequences of implementing them. They overwhelmingly support making less severe changes to the program, and sooner rather than later. Younger voters (those aged 18 to 39) tend most to like private accounts, but not if it means large cuts in Social Security benefits or massive government borrowing...
...sooner had the Berlin Wall come down in November 1989 than the U.S. launched the first of its numerous post--cold war wars by invading Panama in December. John Paul II denounced that invasion, a position he would repeat every time the U.S. sent bombers and troops abroad. The Vatican opposed the Gulf War in 1991, the NATO air war against Serbia, the U.S. campaign against Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq in 2003--the entire spirit of "Crusade" that animates the war on terrorism. The Roman Catholic Church under John Paul II made its opposition to war as clear...