Word: commitement
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George, who is serving a life sentence for conspiracy to commit murder, is president of Lifers' Group Inc., headquartered behind four security doors in the gloomy Victorian fortress in Rahway, N.J. Its 54 members are serving sentences of at least 25 years for crimes ranging from armed robbery to murder. While fellow inmates pump iron, watch TV or gossip in their cells, these jailhouse Rockefellers volunteer their time to help the world outside. "I figured out early on that there were only two things I could work out here," says George, 45. "My health and my mind...
...talk escalated, congressional leaders sought reassurance that Bush is not planning to launch an offensive while the legislature is in recess for the next three months. Bush refused to commit himself. Although the Constitution gives only Congress the authority to declare war, Bush, like several recent Presidents, claims the right to use military force on his own. "Nobody asked the President to rule out a military option," said Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont after the leaders conferred with Bush. "But many of us told him to make sure that we don't use the military option out of impatience...
...Powell's insistence on that point was a hangover from the painful escalation of the Vietnam War, where he served two tours, but Powell denies it. "It's not so much my Vietnam experience as 32 years of military education and training," he says. "If you are going to commit the armed forces of the U.S. to a military operation that could involve conflict and loss of life, then do it right...
...Iraq rhetoric took on a more belligerent tone last week, 15 congressional leaders hurried to the White House to hear President Bush explain his intentions. Afterward Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell repeated a message he has delivered many times: "Under the Constitution the President has no legal authority to commit the U.S. to war. Only Congress can do that...
...other men. Atlanta psychologist Augustus Napier tells of two doctors whose lockers were next to each other in the surgical dressing room of a hospital. For years they talked about sports, money and other safe "male" subjects. Then one of them learned that the other had tried to commit suicide -- and had never so much as mentioned the attempt to him. So much for male bonding...