Word: braved
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...Mike to read his card, a Christmas tree rendered in crayon on blue construction paper. "I like you because you saved so many people in the Twin Towers," says Mike, tripping over the little boy's handwriting. "Thank you for trying to save everybody's life. You are very brave. Too bad you didn't save more people. I wish you could have saved Kris...
...AIDS - grew louder. Across the continent groups began demanding cheaper or free antiretroviral drugs. "Nkosi made a lot of adults think, ?Well, if this little kid is open about his status, then surely we can take those bold steps,'" says Nkosi's doctor Ashraf Coovadia. "He was incredibly brave...
...leading that lesson, for having more faith in us than we had in ourselves, for being brave when required and rude where appropriate and tender without being trite, for not sleeping and not quitting and not shrinking from the pain all around him, Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of the World, is Time's 2001 Person of the Year...
...next day, history rose up and growled. And with that the testing began. Sometimes the greater the tragedy, the easier it is to learn wrong lessons from it: truth turns into myth, mortals into heroes, luck into fate, scars into badges. It is hard for the fire fighters, brave as they are, to be greeted as heroes everywhere they go, proposed to in bars, showered with gifts, when in private they know that many of them cannot sleep and cannot think and cannot find words longer than two syllables, and on the days they don't wake up feeling terrible...
...AIDS?grew louder. Across the continent groups began demanding cheaper or free antiretroviral drugs. "Nkosi made a lot of adults think, 'Well, if this little kid is open about his status, then surely we can take those bold steps,'" says Nkosi's doctor Ashraf Coovadia. "He was incredibly brave...