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...completely defined me; That was a lie I told myself. I wanted to be on TV...and possibly win $120,000. If being on a national game show has taught me anything, it is that I am not and never will be my ideals. I didn’t reject my friend’s offer to send in an audition tape—I responded. Enthusiastically
...polycystic kidney disease, in which cysts grow in the kidneys, often becoming so large that the kidneys fail and have to be replaced. All of the Hubley children inherited the genetic disease. In 1995, Bonnie had a kidney transplant, and in October of last year, her body began to reject the replacement kidney, requiring her to start dialysis...
...Kacynski’s office has since backtracked, and his remarks seem based on impulse. Obama, however, must not act hastily, and must evaluate the project from a balanced perspective. To reject the shield’s installation simply because of Russia’s posturing and a desire to seem diplomatic would appear as a critical sign of weakness to his counterpart in Moscow...
...only has Mbeki failed as an objective mediator, but he also provides a poor example of leadership himself. The Harvard School of Public Health recently found that Mbeki’s decision to reject HIV drugs as unsafe nine years ago cost 330,000 lives. And, in 2001, he made wild accusations against three leaders of his own political party—who were later defended by Nelson Mandela—that they were plotting his ouster. A man with such partiality and dangerously fickle leadership could never be a legitimate mediator...
Obama has vowed to close Guantánamo and reject the Military Commissions Act, the 2006 law underpinning the ongoing Guantánamo tribunals. But major hurdles stand in the way of doing so, even for a new President with a clear mandate...