Word: orphan
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Paul Cowan's An Orphan in History: Retrieving a Jewish Legacy does not shrink from these deep-seated questions as it chronicles the author's voyage of self-discovery, which took him searching through the late 60s civil rights movements, the Catholic left, and a Peace Corps mission to Ecuador before landing him in a neighborhood synagogue on New York City's West Side. Cowan, for many years a reporter for the Village Voice, makes no bones about the anxiety and ambivalence he faced after starting to flirt in earnest with his Jewish roofs, and with the possibility of resuming...
Though Cowan expresses wonder at each step of these changes, the great strength of An Orphan in History is his refusal to sound defensive or self-conscious about regaining his faith. The joy and conviction with which he writes are evident...
...your discussion of drugs [Oct. 11] for rare diseases, you failed to mention that only large pharmaceutical corporations are able to afford the costly indemnity insurance that is necessary in our litigious society. Physicians who are dedicated to orphan-disease therapy and the small companies that usually provide the drugs cannot carry the enormous risk. Either far-reaching product-liability legislation will have to be passed, or some form of insurance pool created to protect the manufacturers. Otherwise, orphan drugs will go unadopted...
Richard Hart, President American Orphan Drug Inc Greenwich, Conn...
Nonetheless, 10 state legislatures have stepped forward to affirm fundamental justice for the District. Hopefully more states will adopt this political orphan, not from self-satisfied benevolence but with a mind to what seventh graders will learn in their history classes...