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...week, the White House was working to regroup with their Republican allies in the hopes that where pressure didn't work, cajoling might. They heralded the House alternative tax plan as a move in the right direction and stowed their complaints about Senate leaders. But out on the stump, the president was still putting on the rhetorical pressure. As the unemployment rate reached 6 percent, upping the political stakes for all Republicans, he took several swipes at Congress. "I urge the United States Congress to look at the unemployment numbers that came out today, and pass a tax relief plan...
...Moua joined Vang's secret army at age 15. His left arm ends in a stump?his hand was removed in a 1974 jungle amputation. One of only four people in the village with some writing skills, he is a meticulous keeper of village statistics?there are 56 orphaned children, 40 widows and 11 widowers. By Moua's count, 30% of the villagers have shrapnel wounds. In 1975, when Vang fled Laos, Moua recorded his group at 7,000 people. Today there are only about 800 left...
...here and there. And there were a few joint appearances before left-leaning interest groups who demanded little more than fawning tributes and Bush-baiting applause lines. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, sidelined to his sofa by surgery last February, sized up his competition on CSPAN as they gave their stump speeches before Democratic National Committee. "These guys look like they're running for the Senate," Kerry privately told campaign aides...
...bought them for their bodies,” Rebecca C. Stump ’04, who helped finance the purchase, said. “My biggest regret in life is missing last year’s show. To make up for it, I’ve become an obsessive groupie and haven’t looked back since...
...insisted that he was not expecting to run Iraq. "It is what the Iraqis want that I think is most important," he told TIME. But the preparations around him--a Pentagon liaison briefing his bodyguards on how to usher him in and out of crowds, religious leaders organized to stump for him before he spoke--bore all the hallmarks of a presidential campaign...