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...barrage attacking McCain's environmental record while praising Bush--the kind of shady, unregulated dirty trick McCain has been railing against for so many years in the Senate. The candidate was powerless to respond. For his part, Bush was running ads in New York charging McCain with voting against breast-cancer research. When the Governor was asked whether he knew that McCain's sister had had the disease, his response was ice cold: "All the more reason to remind him of what he said about the research that goes on here." Back on his bus, McCain--who has voted...
...consider myself a feminist, which means that I support increased funding for breast-cancer research, cheer at Allison Janney's breakthrough performance on TV's The West Wing and don't mind mentioning that I periodically trounce every male of my acquaintance with the temerity to think he can beat me at the basketball game Pop-a-Shot. So what if I have not one but two scars on my right hand from baking corn bread, or if since I bought that yellow paint, I preside over the most cheerful dang kitchen in the tri-state area...
...cancer patients now undergo a colostomy, in which the large intestine is rerouted to a hole in the abdomen and emptied into a bag. That's down from as many as 20% two decades ago.) Larger or more aggressive tumors usually require chemotherapy, which can be a problem. Whereas breast cancer, for example, often succumbs to any of eight to 10 powerful drugs, there has until recently been only one drug strong enough to battle colon cancer--a drug that was developed in the 1950s called 5-fluorouracil...
Over the years, E.I.F. has funneled more than $140 million to various charitable causes, and lately it has been targeting health initiatives, like a $20 million fund-raising campaign to support breast-cancer research. Leveraging the power of celebrity to fight disease is a well-tested strategy. Think Christopher Reeve and spinal-cord injury or Michael J. Fox and Parkinson's disease...
...husband is suddenly dead, her seven children are in peril, she's in debt to a loan shark, and her best friend has breast cancer. But Agnes Browne, played by the director, remains essentially, somewhat improbably, undaunted. She cheerfully runs her fruit and vegetable stall in an outdoor Dublin market, allows herself to be flirted with by the local baker, yearns for tickets to a Tom Jones concert (the year is 1967). Not that we want for another lesson in the need to be chipper in adversity, but there are a reserve and a realism in Huston's work that...