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...heart and a pair of lungs from someone with type-A blood, not Jesica's type O. Her immune system rejected the organs, and over the next few days, Jesica suffered seizure after seizure and was sustained only by life-support machines. Her new heart, ravaged by the immune assault, started to fail, and Jesica's tale turned from the stuff of American mythology into that of American tragedy. After a rare second transplant, doctors on Saturday told her parents Jesica was brain dead...
Furthermore, as Rosenfeld herself noticed, the snow statue was built in “a public space.” Barring an active assault by the sculpture, her description of the object as “menacing” is highly subjective at best. Given our nation’s historically vigorous defense of freedom of expression, the burden of proof lies with Rosenfeld to explain what distinguishes this snow sculpture from, for example, a painting of the Virgin Mary with feces smeared across it (a piece no doubt “menacing” to Christians, but nonetheless protected...
...Gulf, they want to be the ones to do it. Not because it will be fun, but because they firmly believe they are the ones best prepared fight it. They are individually certain that our best chance at the lowest possible cost is if they are leading the assault. Would the parents of the soldiers going into combat want their sons and daughters led by men who were unsure of their own ability...
...like bread, sugar and oil more affordable, and redistribution of wealth and property according to rules of “justice.” Like other foes of globalization, the regime aims to curb “runaway market forces” which are waging an “assault on the poor,” and establish “a firm launching pad for our fight against poverty and food insecurity.” What sets Zimbabwe apart is that it has actually enacted these anti-globalization and so-called “anti-poverty” policies...
Many women and men, including myself, are the victims of sexual assault, child sexual abuse and rape. The unwanted image of an erect penis is an implied threat; it means that we, as women, must be subject to erect penises whether we like it or not. There was nothing “challenging” or “subversive” about the penis. The only thing it did was create an uncomfortable environment for the women of Harvard University...