Word: sonly
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...right, although sometimes the exposure backfired, as it did at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Florence when a woman asked what he could do to help her chronically ill son. Bush danced around the question for a while, talking about the virtues of medical savings accounts, before acknowledging that he couldn't help her. He shrugged in a way that suggested he didn't know why he was supposed to solve everyone's problems. "I'm sorry," he said. "I wish I could wave a wand." It was an honest answer, but it lacked the empathy Americans have come...
...fearing family folk, party loyalists and professionals who fit more comfortably into the new South Carolina. But across the spectrum, the support seemed as soft and mushy as a bowl of yellow grits. When I asked why she liked Bush, Romaine Johnson, 73, who runs Bob's with son Tony, 47, chewed on it and said, "Cuz he's a good-lookin' man." She expected her regular customers to vote Bush. Why? "I guess because they liked his daddy...
...father waits in the wings, obsessed with his son's crusade, dreaming of restoration; the other lies buried in Arlington National Cemetery. But both men are eternally present in this race. In the Bush and McCain clans, expectations are stamped in the genetic code, assumed at birth, resented in adolescence like hair that won't lie flat or legs too short for basketball. Each generation seemed to raise the stakes ever higher. McCain, whose family traces its martial roots back to Charlemagne, entered the Navy as the son and grandson of four-star admirals. Bush, whose family is distantly connected...
...left the Navy. So I'm sure he would be proud, but I think there would be some of it he would just not feel familiar with." Bush doesn't have that problem. His father knows all about life-and-death politics--and so does the son...
...Soundview section of the Bronx, where, White says, "the entire black community is vibrating like a plucked string." On Friday and throughout the weekend, anguished crowds gathered into the evening on the block where Diallo was gunned down, some standing silently with candles, others incoherent in their anger. "My son could end up as the next Amadou Diallo," one young father cried...