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...mild speech impediment (which sounds exactly like Phoenix’s inebriated Johnny Cash), yet can pull out dance moves no white man has possessed since the late 70s. He effortlessly seduces two beautiful women, but is gawky around his parents’ friends (especially Sandra’s father, a cookie-cutter Jewish stereotype). He’s bipolar, but rarely shows any emotion, be it depression, elation, or anything in between.Gray uses Leonard’s bipolarity and Michelle’s ADHD as an excuse to write bad dialogue (Leonard to Michelle: “He left...
...asking for help. Every story is different, but the contours of the problem tend to be depressingly similar: the 10-year-old leukemia patient in Ohio who, after three rounds of chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant, had almost exhausted the maximum $1.5 million lifetime benefit allowed under her father's employer-provided plan; the Connecticut grocery-store worker who put off the radiation treatments for her Stage 2 breast cancer because she had used up her company plan's $20,000 annual maximum and was $18,000 in debt; the New Hampshire accountant who, unable to work during...
...family's crisis worsened. In March 2007, her daughter Taylor, now 10, received a diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia, a fast-growing cancer that not only took a toll on Taylor's body but also quickly consumed the $1 million lifetime health-care benefit the girl had under her father's employer-based coverage. After three chemotherapy treatments, her cancer went into remission, but she suffered multiple side effects, including heart and hip complications, that may dog her for years to come. After state and insurance-company bureaucracies were less than helpful, the ACS and its call center proved...
...solutions, decoding insurance jargon and suggesting strategies for appeals after a denial of coverage. Wilhite got advice on how to approach the family's insurer about increasing lifetime benefits to $1.5 million, a successful strategy that saw benefits raised for all employees at the automotive company where Taylor's father works...
...grow warmer. Indeed, soon after he was first elected, the Venezuelan President asked then Cuban leader Fidel Castro for advice on how to transform his country into a socialist state for the 21st century. Chávez also began to refer to Castro as his "father." (Fidel, 82 and ailing, has since ceded power to his younger brother Raúl.) Today, oil-rich Venezuela sends Cuba discounted crude in exchange for doctors and teachers to administer Chávez's wide-ranging social programs among his nation's poor. Pedro Mena, a self-described Venezuelan opposition organizer in Miami...