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...paralyzed; of an infection from a pressure wound; in Mount Kisco, New York. Reeve won the Superman role in 1977 after a brief stage career and a single bit part in a film, and gave the character strength, romance and, as alter ego Clark Kent, a deft comic touch. After his accident, Reeve became a powerful spokesman for spinal-injury victims, advocating the use of fetal stem cells for medical research...
...executing their captives, the general said, the commandos attacked. All five kidnappers were killed in the ensuing gunfight, along with one hostage, 32-year-old engineer Wang Peng, who died of gunshot wounds. His fellow captive Wang Ende, 49, was rescued alive. Meanwhile, Mesud was several kilometers away, in touch with his men via radio. Before he escaped the area, Mesud told journalists invited to his lair: "We will fight America and its allies until...
Despite these problems, our professors seem to feel a need to assign this much reading. Do they want to prove that they are making us work hard? Is quantity really the only means they have of gauging our engagement? Are they so out-of-touch with our thought processes that they dare not evaluate them, that they do not believe they can make us think better and harder? Quality is much more difficult to quantify. Kenan Professor of Government Harvey Mansfield writes that “Harvard has become too easy” and that “there...
...communications director Nicolle Devenish and much of the senior campaign staff, who were watching in the holding room, started shouting "Haughty! Haughty! Haughty!" That was the Bush spinners' word of the night, a favorite sentiment that showed up in early focus groups, designed to paint Kerry as out of touch and Bush as a man of the people...
...political-advocacy organizations known as 527s for the section of the tax code that created them. On Election Day, Rosenthal expects to have 45,000 paid workers on the streets rounding up every Democrat they can find to vote. The secret, he insists, is staying in touch with those he has signed up. "You talk to people about issues they care about. You talk to them a lot," he says. "You get as close as you can to them...