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...shot himself. Dole dug up dandelions for a nickel a bushel, delivered grocery handbills, worked in the drugstore. He listened to his parents talk about how to pay the doctors treating his little brother Kenny, after his leg got infected and the poultices and maggots and lancings couldn't heal it. He vowed at the time that he would never be such a burden, in fact thought he might become a doctor himself, for the security. But that turned out to be a hard promise to keep. The wound he suffered in Italy three weeks before...
...Jesse Jackson's campaign, the Old Testament verse that went with him everywhere: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and heal their land...
...ideological rifts opened during the primary--which have been widened by a barrage of negative ads--may not heal in time for the November election, according to ABC News correspondent Cokie Roberts...
...argued that the only way to heal the fractures is by challenging the "white, male, triumphal" view of the history of America and to take seriously into account the perspectives of Latinos, Asian-Americans and Native Americans, among other ethnicities...
...institute of marriage was far stronger than it is today. In the end, it is conceivable that the trend toward monogamy engendered by AIDS could lead to a drop in the still-rising percentage of marriages that result in divorce. How ironic that this scourge may help to heal our social fabric...