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...article about young cancer survivors spoke to me [July 30]. I had cancer when I was 13. Now I look at life very differently, and I can understand how to help others reach their own milestones in life. I too had chemotherapy and radiation and a host of side effects. I have been free of cancer for nearly 20 years, and with the medication I'm on, I stand a good chance of a normal life. Survivor Karen Dyer, featured in your report, is a wonderful role model. She has shown that one can survive cancer and live a normal...
...Scene two unfolded seven weeks later, approaching midnight on a Saturday in November, when Mitchell filed into a room in the bowels of Sydney's Telstra Stadium to face the world's media. In a boilover, his side had just lost its semi-final against Australia. Mitchell's black blazer highlighted the absence of color in his face. With dignity, he answered every question, some of them insulting like, "Did you have a game plan tonight?" But he looked and sounded like a man who'd just foreseen the end of the world. Within a month, the New Zealand Rugby...
Within three weeks, the police vans disappeared from the streets, and women once again pushed back their veils, albeit with apprehension. To be on the safe side, I dressed conservatively for an appointment at a university in central Tehran. But at the gate a guard told me my manteau, a sort of Islamic overcoat, had "too few buttons," and he refused me admittance. "You look appalling," he said. A fellow guard rebuked him for addressing a "sister" so disrespectfully. The professor I was meeting, a reformer and onetime official, phoned to intervene, but the guards refused to budge. "Sorry, Doctor...
...political calculation seems to be that the issue will do more for the party if it is simply left alone. Thus far the Republican knee-jerk reaction - to reassure the conservative base - has had the side effect of energizing gay groups. Why attack him and risk the ire of gay-rights groups when Democrats can sit back and watch the GOP eat their...
What?s more, the American politicians Allawi is courting will likely find it uncomfortable to be on the same side as Saddam's old party...