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...direct showdown with the U.S. His rabid anti-Americanism, which previously failed to connect with the majority of Shi'ites, now strikes a chord. A year after the war began, their tolerance is exhausted. The lower rungs of society are fed up with the slow pace of reconstruction and unkept U.S. promises of a better life. Suspicion is rife that America's murky plans for a political transition on June 30 will somehow thwart Shi'ite claims to a rightful share of power. On the streets in the Khadamiyah neighborhood of Baghdad, al-Sadr's outspoken defiance made quiescent...
...from the Caribbean 40 years ago, said five years was too mild a punishment. "Give them life - if they carry a gun they mean to kill," he said to applause. For the government, the strength of public feeling on the subject is an uncomfortable reminder of an old promise unkept. In the early '90s, Tony Blair famously vowed that in power, Labour would be "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime." The delivery time for that promise is now running...
...enact real, bipartisan welfare reform." Lacking the votes to override Clinton's veto, his 12th, the reaction from Republican congressional leaders was anything but sanguine. "He must now demonstrate what he is for," House Ways and Means chairman Bill Archer (R-Tex.) said. "No vague statement of principles. No unkept promises. I expect a complete bill, nothing less will do." The GOP reaction is mostly posturing, notes TIME's James Carney. "The Republicans fully expected this veto and are trying to use it to paint Clinton as abandoning welfare reform, but the issue is still very much alive pending...
...affection between two persons of the same gender is just as acceptable as it is between persons of the opposite sex. Until I can walk through the Yard hand-in-hand with another man without fear of physical violence or verbal abuse, the promise of tolerance at Harvard is unkept...
...short story might be apt for the rookie whose only appearance in a big league box score comes at the tag end of a lost season. A sonnet would be fitting commemoration for those human meteors who flash across the big league sky and then flame out, their promise unkept. My four graybeard survivors, of course, deserve nothing less than full-length novels, sprawling Victorian epics that carry them from apple-cheeked anticipation to adult acclaim to the agonies of aging abilities...