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...become her flock. She greets them all, here in Sherman Oaks, on her way through airport terminals, in restaurants, on talk-show sets; she will stop, nod, listen, proffer advice, give a phone number and tell these mothers, these families, to never give up hope. "Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism," McCarthy says. "Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way." (See Karl Taro Greenfeld's story about growing old with autism...
Playing fiscal detective to track down the logic for the hike is unsatisfying. "Washington opened the sluice gates of military spending after the 9/11 attacks primarily not because it was the appropriate thing to do strategically but because it was something the country could do when something had to be done," military scholar Richard Betts wrote in Foreign Affairs in 2007. Neither Presidents nor lawmakers want to be branded unpatriotic by trying to cut defense spending, a non sequitur if there ever was one. Many lawmakers cloak their advocacy for hometown weapons production in such red, white and blue bunting...
...weeks ago, when Reid yanked a bipartisan jobs bill that was hammered out by Democrat Max Baucus and Republican Chuck Grassley, it looked like he was on course to do the same thing he did with health care reform: pull a bipartisan deal and replace it with a partisan bill. But that barely worked when the Democrats had 60 votes - so how could Reid hope to ram something through now, when he's one vote short of stopping a Republican filibuster? (See pictures of Republican memorabilia...
...served to signal that regardless of who leads the group, the government will continue to beat it down. The government, says Stacher, does "not want them participating in legislative elections or syndicate elections or generally," and it would rather see the Brotherhood "withdraw." "They would ideally like the same thing from the Brotherhood that they've been able to achieve with most other sectors of society and the other remaining opposition: complete acquiescence to their terms...
Wednesday's achievement was the more remarkable because it came against South Africa, which has a powerful bowling lineup and superb fielders. Scoring big against the minnows of the sport - Bangladesh or Zimbabwe, for instance - is one thing; taking 200 from the South Africans is many leagues harder...