Word: handing
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...enterprise and hard-earned savings. We get taxed when we earn. We get taxed when we spend. We should not get taxed when we save. The estate tax was instituted in part to help fund World War I. News flash: the war is over. We won. Peace is at hand, and we have a budget surplus...
...father? "That's just the way I talk about my sons," the President says. But, he adds, he "made a mistake" with his angry televised rejoinder. "I went too far," he says. "That's it. I'm not going to say anything more." He puts his hand up and zips his lips. Sitting nearby is Barbara, who mutters something that sounds like "I'm going to say something," which she did the next day. In fact, he probably will too, eventually...
...President Bush, his hip hurting a bit and stomach churning more than normal (old-time ulcer knocking on the wall?), is in Philadelphia's elegant Rittenhouse Hotel, humor and asperity bubbling, TV clicker in hand, scolding the blaring monster screen on which friends and foes from the days of power are babbling about him and W. And while watching TV, he is riffling through magazines, offering his own irreverent editing: "That's crazy...Good pictures...Hey, they got that right for a change...
What most infuriates the U.S. is that 17 November operates with a free hand. "It's not that Greece has the world's worst terrorist problem," says Wayne Merry, a former U.S. embassy official. "It's that Greece has the world's worst counterterrorism problem." What are Greek police doing? "Zilch, zip, zero," huffs a U.S. official. Not one arrest. Not one conviction...
...ragged bunch of toughs sit around their hirsute, half-crazed leader. They are drinking alcohol, laughing raucously and enjoying the terror of their hostages, who are huddled together, fearing almost certain death. Suddenly, the leader raises his hand; his followers fall silent. All they can hear is the sounds of the jungle, but they know their chief has an uncanny sense for danger, one that has helped them evade an elite government-commando battalion for several years. "He has eyes everywhere," an awestruck movie-villager explains...