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They pushed my right hand onto the ground. I was shouting and begging them. I watched when they cut it off. I was looking at the stump, watching the way the veins vibrated when the blood flowed out. It was very painful, and I was shouting. When they grabbed my other hand, I blacked out, so I didn't feel them cut it off. After they'd cut off both my hands, I told them, "Kill me, because I am no use in the world!" They told me I was making a noise, and they said it was because...
...what makes people respond to him. He already has, for example, the pregnant-stripper constituency wrapped up. And he will continue to build on that base, according to his friend Tim Burke, the Hamilton County Democratic chairman who is pressing Springer to run. "Jerry has always had a Kennedyesque stump style," says Burke. "I think you'd see a sharp distinction from Senator Mike DeWine on things like this goofy...
Kennedy is not ashamed to use his famous name to boost his climb. Until last week's vigil darkened the family's Hyannis Port compound, he had planned to hold a clambake there in September for $100,000 donors. On the stump, he often invokes his father and the memories of his slain uncles and speaks of his crusade as a thread in the great family tapestry. "Bringing the House back into Democratic control is the way he talks about contributing to the family legacy," says a Democratic leadership aide...
...expect the same from George W. Bush. The Texas Governor has stayed clear of dramatic policy shifts on Taiwan, and last week he issued a statement reiterating his adherence to the U.S.'s one-China formula. "This isn't the kind of policy you can change on the stump," says an aide. That advice was evidently making the rounds. Republican John McCain and Democrats Al Gore and Bill Bradley remained committed to a Beijing-focused policy...
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