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...House of Representatives' health care debate, which was expected to wrap up by Friday, is now on hold till next month so the members can try to salvage the crime bill. Majority Leader Richard Gephardt said the health care debate will begin by Sept. 8 at the latest, when they return from a held-over summer recess. The scheduling may leave Democrats in the soup: the longer the bill is delayed, the harder it will be to enact reforms considered essential to Democratic prospects in November's congressional elections...
...kills in hours, draining the body of fluid so fast that nurses without equipment for transfusions cannot rehydrate victims in time. Along the roadways and in the camps it has become hard to tell the sleeping from the dead until the bodies swell up in the tropical sun. Refugees wrap their faces in scarves and rags and surgical masks, hoping to filter the stench from the rotting bodies everywhere...
...treat her cholera; but she continued to bleed, and died before noon. Her husband arose and left, and the baby, still caked with blood, was left alone on the mat. "Without breast-feeding she is going to die," said one relief worker, swaddling the baby in a cloth wrap and leaving her in a cardboard box in the corner of a tent...
...most memorable scenes in film history. She enters Jeffries' apartment, coming down a small flight of entrance stairs. We see her in her full glory, a chiffon A-line flouncy dress appliqued with fronds which emerge gracefully from the waste band. She slowly and gracefully takes off her wrap and walks towards the camera, leaning in toward Stewart. Suddenly the angle turns and shows Kelly bending toward Stewart who is seated in his wheelchair. In slow motion, their lips touch. The camera returns to regular speed as she lifts her lips from his and whispers to him, her lips-sticked...
Rudenstine has a pulpit, and is trying to use it to change Harvard. But McArthur, by operating behind the scenes and getting things done at wrap-speed, may now be the most powerful person at the University...