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...over the next year, Dale Todd stepped from the crowd and introduced his son Adam, a 7-year-old scamp in a red sweater vest, who suffers from a tricky form of epilepsy that has defied every one of the half a dozen medications he has tried. The former Cedar Rapids city councilman told his neighbors that Clinton had pushed harder than anyone else in the Congress to find research money to beat the disease. Then he dissolved into tears, and Clinton wrapped her arms around him, choking up herself...
MARIANNE F. KALETZKY ’08 of Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Mather House Arts Chair...
...that tell everyone in your home village that you've been up in the mountains for the weekend. The fact that the snowmen often block windshield visibility doesn't seem to bother anyone. Indeed, a certain joie de vivre in the face of danger is as Lebanese as the cedar tree. As my Lebanese skiing buddy, Alex, said when an errant snowboarder went crashing through the plastic orange protective webbing separating skiers and the lunchtime crowd sunning themselves at a base lodge: "They ski like they drive...
...shining beacon of his Administration's "democracy agenda" for the Middle East. Close to 1 million Lebanese had flooded into Beirut to demand that Syria pull its troops out of Lebanon and end its 29-year domination of the country. The U.S. State Department coined the protests the Cedar Revolution, a more folksy title than the Lebanese term, Independence Intifadeh, which smacked of radicalism. But with six ministers having resigned since Nov. 11, sectarian tensions rising and government officials fearing for their lives, the vision of a new Lebanon is dimming fast--and with it, the Administration...
...Cedar Revolution crashing down? Part of the answer rests outside Lebanon's borders. During the summer's war with Israel, Hizballah relied heavily on the Syrians for logistic, military and financial support. According to Israeli officials, Western diplomats in Beirut and Arab sources, Damascus acted as a conduit for Iranian weapons to reach Hizballah, allowing the group to fight the Israelis to a standstill...