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...weepie, where the beautiful wife is dying, or a thriller, with one spouse trying to kill the other - just two people facing the burdens of living together after the first passion has ebbed, when the idle words and gestures of the person you used to love threaten to ascend to the level of war crimes...
...universal health care plan to infrastructure repairs, proponents see the initiative as an opportunity to expose and eliminate wasteful government spending. “These are the usual ‘sky-is-falling’ claim from our opponents, who like to pick the most popular programs and threaten to cut them, while ignoring government waste...and the thousands of subcontracters that are unaccountable and unscrutinized by the taxpayer,” said Carla A. Howell, president of the small government group. Asked to cite specific wasteful items, Howell described “exorbitant government pensions and fake reform...
...States and China move closer and closer to consensus on a variety of major international issues, including the fight against terrorism, the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, and the importance of free trade. A new national missile defense system would send an aggressive signal to the Chinese government and threaten to reverse all the diplomatic gains of the past three decades.What makes the Wolfowitz proposal even more appalling is that it proposes a massive increase in military spending just as the nation is suffering through a financial crisis of historic proportions. Causing needless confrontation with China by building an incredibly...
...along with the angry ones opposing any rescue package, most GOP House members do want to see something passed - only they'd prefer that it be done without their votes. Worse yet, there is precious little that President Bush, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson or Boehner has left to threaten them with, as the three leaders are already an endangered species. "It is a tough deal; there's no safe way to do the wrong thing," says former Republican majority leader Dick Armey. "The majority of the Republicans in the House understand the gravity of this situation: a fundamental realignment...
...innocent playfulness. A snow white sifaka putting on a show before a crowd of onlookers, swinging back and forth - it's so toe-curlingly kawaii, as our Japanese traveling companions put it, you could die. Though cuteness alone isn't likely to save the lemurs from the forces that threaten them - hunting, deforestation and habitat destruction - it certainly puts them in a better position than their homelier endangered peers...