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1. "Serb friends of my son come and ask after him, and they start crying and say: ‘Mother, forgive us!‘ – they call me mother – and they leave crying.
2. They cited previous cases in which agency leaders pleaded ignorance after the VA faced billion–dollar budget shortfalls. You have to ask after all this, is this a secretary who is in control of his agency?
3. This movie is just a love story set against that background." Isn‘t that a little disingenuous, I ask – after all, one character in the film returns to the dormitory from the protest to curse the authorities as "fucking bastards". "Yes, there is such a scene.
4. Citing unresolved questions and the campaign‘s refusal to release the medical records involved, he writes: "The circumstantial evidence for weirdness around this pregnancy is so great that legitimate questions arise –– questions anyone with common sense would ask. . . . After all, this baby was a centerpiece of the public case for Palin made by the Republicans." Karl Rove, the former Bush White House adviser, says the McCain camp had planned to publicize Bristol Palin‘s pregnancy all along.
5. We didn‘t clash and my children knew I was ill. «I wonder if this is part of the problem with Amy; that she wouldn‘t want to worry me. «I would ask after her and she‘d say, ‘Don‘t worry, Mum, I‘m fine.‘ I wonder if in her way she was being protective of me. «These days, I physically can‘t cope with all the running around that Mitch does to try to keep her out of trouble. «I had a relapse recently and I don‘t want to provoke another one.» Research has shown that stress has a dramatic effect on MS sufferers.