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...Sandy, where his work ethic spoke volumes. In the summers, Smith, a self-described "hick" who turns words like curfew into care-few, picked berries, and tossed 30-lb. bales of hay onto trucks. "I can smell it now," he says, perking up in his Lake Forest, Ill., office, loading faux hay over his shoulder. "We didn't know about lifting weights. Haaaay! That's what you got." The name Lovie he got from his great-aunt Lavana, no doubt requiring him to become a very tolerant man. His most stirring performance took place in 1988, when his son Matthew...
...many amputees. Weisskopf's position as a senior correspondent for a major magazine meant that he got the best care. But what happens to the soldier with a high school diploma who never saw a doctor before his injury and who may return home to a setting that is ill equipped to get him to even the nearest wheelchair vendor? Our soldiers also deserve top-quality care for their injuries...
PHILLIP L. ELBAUM Deerfield, Ill...
...worldwide? Is the rest of the world wrong? I applaud the courage of Chávez, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and others who are not afraid to speak out. If our leaders are pigheaded and hell-bent on having their erroneous way, we should stop them from pursuing their ill-conceived, self-destructive course...
...fresh, sunny Saturday in Rockford, Ill., and nearly a thousand people have gathered in the gymnasium at Rock Valley College to participate in a town meeting with their Senator, Barack Obama. It is an astonishingly large crowd for a beautiful Saturday morning, but Obama--whose new book, The Audacity of Hope, is excerpted starting on page 52--has become an American political phenomenon in what seems about a nanosecond, and the folks are giddy with anticipation. "We know he's got the charisma," says Bertha McEwing, who has lived in Rockford for more than 50 years. "We want to know...