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...friend’s mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and my heart broke in that same way. Instead of punching walls, I found myself on the phone with people from the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge (DFMC), a group of about 400 people who run Boston every year and collect pledges for a research program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The combination of blind anger, frustration and college can-do-it-ism convinced me that I could finally do something about this disease that kept invading people’s lives...
...longterm goal?a force of 60,000?is a long way off. Given Afghanistan's shattered infrastructure, even getting recruits from across the country to the gates of the academy is a daunting task. "If I can't collect the soldiers, I can't start training," says McDonnell. He has started, but with fewer recruits than desired. The target number for the inaugural battalion was 605 men; just over 400 showed up. Most were flown from provincial recruitment centers, others arrived on horseback and still more trickled in after days of walking...
...process, the College must do more to meet the immediate needs of rape victims. Currently, there is no single central hotline to call or building to go to where rape survivors can receive comprehensive guidance in the aftermath of sexual assault. Many students are unaware of the need to collect physical evidence, when it is available, and University Health Services currently lacks the resources and staff training to do so. The College must correct all of these deficiencies so that sexual assault victims get the support they need...
...compensate injured ex-spies and families of agents who never returned. But the more than 2,200 men and women who went north and came back physically unscathed, like Kim Su Chan, got nothing. When he returned from a mission to gather intelligence in 1961, he expected to collect the money his recruiters had promised him. Instead, Seoul accused him of working for the North Koreans. They let him go but kept him under surveillance, and he couldn't get a job because the police interrogated anybody who hired him. He eventually retreated to the mountains south of Seoul, surviving...
...work and didn’t have a calling card. I had to call my dad collect because I was so excited,” she said...