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...afterward but was forced to take another hiatus in June 2006, when the cancer resurfaced and part of his jawbone had to be removed. While he was still in the hospital, his reconstructed jaw collapsed and a blood vessel ruptured. Emergency surgery saved his life, but because of a breakdown of tissue surrounding the artery, he has been in a constant state of treatment and recovery ever since, which has affected his ability to speak. When he appeared at New York City's Gotham Awards last November, his wife Chaz spoke for him as he took the stage to accept...
...taped by prison authorities), Jeffs said that the Lord "has shown me I have not held the priesthood since I was 20 years old, having been immoral with a sister and a daughter." Jeffs' lawyers and his brother, Nephi, declared the renunciations were not true and reflected a mental breakdown. Jeffs has declined to elaborate on that confession of incest and later recordings have Jeffs denying them. More on the subject may be forthcoming, however, as Texas authorities examine DNA samples from Jeffs and others in their ongoing criminal investigation. An Eldorado grand jury is set to reconvene on July...
...they're a distinct minority at Treasury and the Fed; men in light-colored suits are even rarer.) The U.S. government is a far bigger, more activist presence in financial markets than it was in the early 1930s, and this activism has staved off the kind of financial breakdown that sparked the Depression...
...that her nature? No. She had a bad breakdown when she found that she was stuck on the farm [in Rhodesia]. She turned into this self-pitying woman who started to live through her children. All my friends' mothers were appalling women. They had nothing in their lives - of course, husbands are just something you look after...
...first comes psychological healing. During an interview with the New York Times on Thursday (the audiotape of which was shared with Newsweek, TIME and National Public Radio), when asked if she might have a breakdown, Betancourt, who is poetically articulate in English, French and Spanish, admitted she senses that moment is coming. "It's like the roaring of the waves," she said. "I know it's getting closer. I know it's time for me to stop because I don't want to be submerged by depression...