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...most challenging things about that day is that you're on a great high because you just had a baby," she says. "Then someone comes in and says, 'Yeah, you had a baby, but ... ,' and how they say that but is critical." The Hebeins, who live in Evanston, Ill., will be forever grateful to their pediatrician, Arthur Dechovitz, for the way he delivered that but. "When Chris was born, parents were being told to institutionalize their children. We never had that kind of experience," Sheila says. "The doctor said, 'Here's your baby. Who do you think he looks like...
...opportunity for the disabled and have helped redefine what such children are capable of. Chris Hebein is a remarkable example. Having graduated from a special education school, he has worked full time for the past 12 years as a mail clerk at Rotary International in Evanston. Never late, never absent, Chris Hebein adores his work and takes pride in his ability to sort mail at top speed. "Am I fast or what?" he asks, while flipping envelopes into piles and occasionally jotting a note to keep track of mailing expenses. At home with his parents, he plays his own jazzy...
...been out of my room all day, and my polling station is near my dorm,” she said. Some, though, found local politics alluring enough to warrant a trip to the polls. Seth R. Flaxman ‘08, who hails from Evanston, Ill., said he voted in the Cambridge election because, after being initiated into local politics, he wanted to get involved in the Cambridge election. “I talked to people who I knew who either had voted here or had been following the races and I talked to some candidates who were...
...DIED. HAYDEE YORAC, 64, tenacious and incorruptible human-rights lawyer called on by three Philippine presidents to perform some of the country's most difficult assignments; in Evanston, Illinois. The daughter of a mayor from the central Philippines, Yorac spent three months in jail in 1972 during Ferdinand Marcos' oppressive rule, emerging from prison to defend victims of government-ordered brutality. Yorac later served as head of President Corazon Aquino's Human Rights Commission and the Presidential Commission on Good Government, which was charged with recovering Marcos' hidden wealth after he was exiled. Her team of young lawyers repatriated...
Corazon Aquino may be our finest world leader today. John Hannahs Evanston...