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...failed to grasp the extent to which Walter Reed's responsibilities had grown from frontline medicine to hospitality, a job they were no more prepared for than Pentagon planners were for the long-term occupation of Iraq. The battle of the wounded will continue long after the fighting, their plight resonating with a public outraged by the war and sympathetic to its principal U.S. victims...
...First Baptist Church, ironically located at the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Jefferson Davis (former Confederate president) Street, Hillary Clinton addressed specific issues such as health care, veteran benefits, global warming and the plight of Katrina victims still living in trailers. She also criticized the state of current voting rights and the position of the nation on the world's stage. A crowd of about 750 crowded into the church, with overflow watching a video screen in the basement. "It's time to take it back," said Clinton referring to our national standing...
...Harvard diploma—is more of an American Mirage for 99.9 percent of the world. If we don’t have the sense to recognize it for the illusion that it is, we’ll get led further into the desert and away from improving the plight of those that need help the most...
...Crimson’s plight over the team’s recent past, history reared its ugly head and doomed the Harvard squad, as a 74-69 double-overtime victory mirrored a loss in Jadwin just three years prior...
...colleague Hannah Beech wrote when Chen's sentence of four years and three months was announced last September, Chen is a "self-schooled legal activist [who] came to Shanghai to publicize the plight of women who had been forced to undergo abortions or sterilizations as part of the nation's family-planning campaign. China has tried for more than two decades to lower its population through its 'one-child' policy, but the coercive measures used in Shandong's Linyi region are now illegal. By publicizing abuses committed by local bureaucrats, Chen believed he could persuade higher-level officials to step...