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...also think Saddam is a threat to his own people and we know about the crimes he has committed against his people for years and I think it’s important to stop him,” said Elizabeth K. Mahoney...
...Jesica--the shy 17year-old battling a congenitally enlarged heart and failing lungs--and her poor, devout parents, who three years ago paid a coyote to smuggle Jesica and themselves into the U.S., where they hoped to find help for the dying girl. There was the wealthy philanthropist Mack Mahoney, who read of Jesica's plight in a North Carolina paper and made it his mission to get her a heart-and-lung transplant to try to save her life. Finally, there was the venerable institution where the story would unfold, Duke University Hospital, renowned for the brilliance and dexterity...
...benefactor, Mahoney, has emerged from the ordeal embittered and more than a little hoarse from fielding media interviews. Mahoney says Duke officials misled Jesica's parents, who barely speak English, about the gravity of Jesica's condition. "Dumb Mexicans--that's how they saw [the Santillans]," he growls. He says he had to fight the hospital to make it admit to--and attempt to fix--the mistake. He also claims that Duke officials refused to let him see the girl when they learned he was taking her story to the press. Says the hospital's CEO, Dr. William Fulkerson...
...publicity had its effect. And a call that Senator Elizabeth Dole made to Mahoney asking about Jesica--when he happened to be meeting with Duke's administrators--probably didn't hurt. Duke officials publicly accepted responsibility for the botched operation last Monday. Three days later, a new set of organs, for which recipients typically have to wait a year or two, made its way to Jesica. But it came two weeks too late. Jesica's latest set of heart and lungs was working well, but the trauma had caused irreparable brain damage...
Senior skipper Liam Mahoney and classmate Zoe Epstein guided Harvard’s ‘A’ boat to a seventh place finish within the division...