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...just another Saturday night at the Coeur d'Alene Greyhound Park in Post Falls, Idaho. The dogs had returned to their kennels. The boisterous stands had nearly emptied. Custodian Lou Tonani was making his usual rounds when he happened upon an old man in a wheelchair, a bag of diapers dangling by his side. He wore a brand-new sweatsuit, blue bedroom slippers and a baseball cap emblazoned with the words PROUD TO BE AMERICAN. Twin typewritten notes, carefully taped to opposite sides of the wheelchair, identified him as "John King," a retired farmer suffering from Alzheimer's disease...
Cancer survivors cheer when they hear Tsongas speak of the moment on "day zero" that he watched his bone marrow -- and his life -- being pumped back into his body. His candidacy has encouraged other survivors in the same way that wheelchair athletes cheer amputees and paraplegics. "It excites them to know that there's someone who's willing to talk about the disease, who's not afraid to say he's had cancer," says Peggy Baker, director of the cancer- survivors program at the University of Chicago Hospitals...
...What If You Couldn't...?," children begin to understand what life is like with a disability. They trek across surfaces of brick, rock and sand in a wheelchair, finger sign language and peck on a braille typewriter...
...usual American response to inequality is to rename it, in the hope that it will go away. We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism. Does the cripple rise from his wheelchair, or feel better about being stuck in it, because someone back in the early days of the Reagan Administration decided that, for official purposes, he was "physically challenged...
...other characters exacerbate David's dilemma. Jonathan Fisher convincingly plays an alcoholic who wants to prevent David from repeating his mistakes. C. Michael Rodriguez is both wryly funny and poignant (without overdoing it) in his role as the fatalistic, wheelchair-ridden cynic. Both Fisher and Rodriguez torment David by making him believe that his successes can all be attributed to luck...