Word: faithful
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...people who read Fox's interview in People Magazine revealing his long-kept secret or saw him talking with Barbara Walters on last Friday's "20/20" can fail to have been impressed by his faith and optimism in battling the degenerative neurological disorder. Amidst such melodramatic headlines as "The Fight of His Life," Fox has kept a calm, almost beatific demeanor in addressing concerns about his health and future. This is no small feat when you consider the disease he is facing...
Well, besides starring in several movies and starring in and producing a new sitcom for ABC (which won a Golden Globe this year), Fox seems to have decided to attack his condition with the notable combination of faith and science. Last spring, he underwent one of the most aggressive treatments for Parkinson's, a thalamotomy, in which doctors removed the brain cells contributing to Fox's most severe limb tremors. Despite the operation's risk of paralysis or death, he told Walters, "I had full faith in my doctors, and I had full faith...
...more than a million and a half Americans suffering from the devastating effects of Parkinson's, though, it might be difficult to share such faith and optimism. The surgery Fox received is not helpful to all patients, nor is it a permanent cure. Though one of the most important legislative acts of the Clinton Administration was the lifting of the ban on fetal tissue transplant research to aid Alzheimer's and Parkinson's in 1993, increased funding and public awareness are still lacking in the search for a true cure for the disease...
Global Youth Connect, with which Chris King has been in contact for months, is an entirely secular organization unaffiliated with any faith...
Since religion or connection with Christian organizations is in no way part of the King-Driskell platform, the intimation made in today's editorial must refer not to platform but to private faith. To imply that having religious beliefs as a candidate should "raise concern" among students is to characterize private faith as dangerous and unwanted. To call "values-driven leadership"--something one would hope all candidates would strive to embody--"troubling" due to private faith, which has been completely unmentioned by the candidates themselves, is to stigmatize those who hold to religious beliefs and to prejudge and misrepresent their...