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...troops were on their way in. Sweeping aside the Haitian army was the least difficult, least important part of their mission. Ahead loomed the far tougher job of imposing and keeping order in a country ripe for mayhem, then laying the ground for a self- sustaining democracy to take root in a land that for centuries has known + little but grinding poverty and bloody dictatorship...
while allowing democracy to take root...
...those numbers you learn early on in life, its square root being 12. It is also the average speed of wafted ball in a jai alai match, the average number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie roll pop and the average poundage of food wasted on a Wednesday in any given Harvard dining hall...
Somehow, though, midnight basketball has become the laugh line of the crime bill. It has come to stand for all that is wrong with liberals and their woolly talk about "root causes." The criteria set out to define communities eligible for funds -- those with a high incidence of joblessness, illegitimacy, AIDS and crime -- have been parodied as requiring teams to be made up of HIV-positive, drug-taking pregnant dropouts. And the very name doesn't help. At midnight all the good kids are supposed to be in bed, and anyone who isn't should not be coddled with giveaways...
...Bradley Erwin looked like a healthy baby when he was born last March. He just didn't seem to get the hang of breast-feeding. His mother Kimberly, 38, a medical technician, tried to nurse him. "He would bob his head, root and try to latch on, but he wasn't getting anywhere," she recalls. "Everybody kept saying, 'Don't worry. Don't worry."' It was bad advice. When the infant was 12 days old, his parents rushed him to Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. His breathing was shallow; his eyes had rolled back. "I was frantic because...