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...survived the car crash, after a fashion. In the five months since parts of her brain had been crushed, she could open her eyes but didn't respond to sights, sounds or jabs. In the jargon of neurology, she was judged to be in a persistent vegetative state. In crueler everyday language, she was a vegetable...
Moreover, stemming the tide of immigration depends not on finding ways to make immigration crueler, but on finding ways to help develop the countries where widespread poverty leaves individuals with few choices but risking illegal immigration to the U.S. Although the idea of aiding poorer nations in Latin America has not weighed heavily in the immigration debate—and is not explicitly endorsed by the May-Day coalition—we hope that it is an idea that marchers will consider and support in the future...
...that he was resigning. He later confided that he wanted to leave at his physical and mental peak, not hang around past his prime as he'd seen other Senate old-timers do. That made his Alzheimer's disease, which was diagnosed after he retired, an even crueler irony to endure...
...show on the phone. A late-night convenience store is visited by zombies who refuse to buy anything. An entire village pulls up stakes and moves itself inside a handbag made of the skin of a dog. Link casts her spells like an expert; these tales are far darker, crueler and sadder than their premises suggest...
...star like Hudson, to millions of fans who they fear cannot and will not accept the truth. For years they have played a cat-and-mouse game with a press that for the most part is sympathetic. Now many of them are being exposed in a manner crueler than any scandal sheet could ever have devised: by a frightening, incurable and invariably fatal disease...