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...Cross has made a huge investment in improving the quality of its own oversight and of the blood supply," said Donna Shalala, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, in 1998, according to a news release from the Dole campaign. "In her leadership of the Red Cross, few have done more to alleviate human miseries and save lives...
...example, the Juneau, Alaska, of Limbo. It seems to have a limitless supply of his kind of people--aging slackers muddling inconclusively along. Chief among them are Joe Gastineau (Sayles regular David Strathairn) and Donna De Angelo (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). He's a handyman, an omnicompetent fixer-upper, who has abandoned the life he loves, as a fishing-boat captain, because he feels responsible for the death of two men on a long-ago voyage. She's a wandering bar singer--a very good one--encumbered by a sulky, judgmental adolescent daughter (Vanessa Martinez) but blessed by good nature. Like...
Having known Mastrantonio, Sayles wrote Donna for her, infusing the character with what he calls her "resilience" and then creating a stern, surprising test for it. Civilization in Alaska is, after all, a thin membrane stretched across a vast wilderness, and the writer-director devises a way for Donna, Joe and her daughter to fall into the darkness. On a seemingly innocent cruise with his half brother, they are beset by murderous demons out of the brother's shady past and become castaways on a deserted island--their resources (and survivalist skills) scant, the knowledge that the criminals must seek...
...Donna Mitchell was told her daughter, eight-year-old Sawateos, had attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, but she also showed signs of serious depression and anxiety, which are often found in combination. Mitchell's first reaction was, "I can pray this away. I thought, Listen, nobody in my family is going on drugs. That's an insult. I figured all we needed was family talks." But two years after the diagnosis, Mitchell has agreed to put her child on the ADHD drug Ritalin. She still resists the idea of antidepressants. It's her preteen daughter who's making the case...
...Within Harvard Square, there are still different neighborhoods and pockets," Starbucks' New England regional marketing manager Donna Peterson explains...