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...prosthetic leg. The 25-year-old National Guardsman props his mechanical limb on the picnic table so everybody at Rudy's Country Store and Bar-B-Q can see. Then he rolls up the sleeve of his battle-dress uniform and points to the long, wide, nasty scar left by the explosion that took his leg in northern Iraq a year ago. People come by afterward to slap him on the back and thank him for serving his country. No pity party here. "I live by the theory of suck it up. Why be negative?" he says...
Braddock has had a year to live with his injuries and his new leg, which now sports a huge State of Washington seal. He calls the ugly seam where doctors sewed up his arm "my favorite scar." His right ankle, the one he was born with, gives him more problems than his prosthetic ankle. "I could take my shoe off to show you," he offers, "but it takes an act of God to get it back on." Then, while people around us are getting barbecue sauce all over their faces, he relives Jan. 13, 2005, the night...
...well-endowed muscular frame puts my own to shame. The sheer, intimidating perfection of his figure is a testament to the abhorrently unfair process of DNA distribution. In the interest of leveling the social playing-field, I support dragging Mr. Canaday down to the level of the genetic proletariat: scar his face, knock out his front teeth, surgically remove his bulging biceps…whatever it takes. It’s only fair. And we speak not only of Harvard, but also America. For even here, inequality festers in its many subtle forms. From income to intelligence to bone structure...
...turned up a couple of weeks later in Florida for a Greg Norman--sponsored golf tournament that raised almost $2 million for the tsunami effort. The next day Clinton had surgery to remove some scar tissue and fluid from around his left lung, and Bush immediately checked on his spirits and kept after him for weeks about the importance of working out. A family friend recalls sitting with Bush in Kennebunkport, Maine, while 41 dialed up his new best friend: How do you feel? What do the doctors say? Are you sore? How much are you exercising...
Phoenix tries hard to be a blank slate, but his actual biography is quite juicy. He was born (with that distinctive scar over his lip) in Puerto Rico to parents who were missionaries for the religious cult Children of God. By the time he was 8 years old, the family had moved to Los Angeles, where his mother was a secretary in the office of an NBC casting director, paving the way for Joaquin's debut on the series Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Phoenix worked consistently until his early teens but quit acting after appearing in Ron Howard...