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...Reid will have little margin for error along the way. Between those two votes will be weeks of deliberations over scores of amendments, many of which will be designed more to produce 30-second attack ads than to influence the actual shape of the legislation. There will come the arguments that Pelosi, whose office gives her far greater command of the floor, successfully kept out of a House debate that lasted a mere 12 hours: Will a government-run public option be among the choices offered to the uninsured? Should individuals be required to buy health insurance, and businesses...
...million other Indonesians, she traveled far from home to find employment. She was hired by a wealthy family in Saudi Arabia. But one day, while on her boss's property, she went to check on some goats and, according to what is known of her tale, was raped by two men. Yunus was conceived of that assault...
...two women raising the boy hope he never learns about his mother - let alone his real father. The stigma of such a birth is so heinous that Yunus' mother gave him up to Normawati, 50, and her close friend Ibu Herlina, 53, who describe themselves as Yunus' adoptive grandmother and mother, respectively. However, the child's situation is not unique, and Normawati (who like many Indonesians goes by a single name) is not unused to it. Indeed, the campaigner for migrant-worker rights and her daughter are raising several children of half-foreign parentage who were abandoned by raped migrant...
Normawati says there are dozens of children who were abandoned by migrant workers in homes throughout Jakarta and surrounding areas. "I'm in my house one or two days a week," she says. "I travel to see my grandchildren" - as she calls the abandoned infants. Normawati and Herlina sustain their wards by way of donations as well as assistance from the families of some of the children, who are nevertheless too ashamed to raise the children themselves...
...seems few people knew how badly he was suffering. In an interview with the German soccer magazine 11 Freunde, however, Enke did give a hint of just how much he was holding back: "When speaking with the press, I always have two opinions. My personal feelings, and those which I serve to the public...