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They think Weld overlooked the game's cardinal rule: that Congress has its own rules, including the absolute power of committee chairmen over supplicants such as Weld.
It is based on a story of Jesus healing a sick man from afar; Spencer placed himself in the role of the convalescent--still recumbent but already striding from the sheets--and his brothers and sister as praying supplicants.
But the Financial Times of London reported that the first day of the 12-nation Asian summit meeting in Kuala Lumpur had been dominated by growing dissatisfaction--most strongly expressed by Malaysia and China--with the conditions imposed by the IMF on its Asian supplicants, Thailand, Indonesia, and South Korea.