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DIED From childhood on, disability-rights lawyer Harriet McBryde Johnson was adamant about defending what she thought was right--even if that meant leading the charge as a young teen to oust a teacher she considered abusive. Suffering from a congenital neuromuscular disease and bound to a wheelchair, Johnson resented assumptions about her quality of life. She railed against the "pity-based tactics" of the Jerry Lewis muscular dystrophy telethon, challenged a prominent Princeton professor on the ethics of euthanizing disabled infants and spoke out in defense of the brain-damaged Terri Schiavo when her case polarized the nation...
...again. Ahead were years of back and leg braces, more than a dozen major surgeries on my legs and spine, learning to walk again (and again and again after each surgery) and 45 years of using crutches to get around, followed by (so far) 11 years in a wheelchair. I can't even begin to describe the emotional, spiritual, social and psychological pain I have endured these past 56 years. I, my parents and all those thousands of others would have given anything at all to have had the vaccine instead of the hellish nightmare we faced. Michael Odle, WEST...
...that the Pub show was primarily aimed to share the stories told by Kolbe and Martin. “As a musician, I love stories that are real,” Corrigan said, “and there’s nothing more real than someone sitting in a wheelchair, saying that there’s always hope.” —Staff writer Sue Lin can be reached at suelin@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Arianna Markel can be reached at amarkel@fas.harvard.edu...
...testament to the fever pitch of nationalism that even iconic figures can suddenly find themselves under attack. The Paralympic fencer Jin Jing became a national hero (dubbed "the wheelchair angel" by the Chinese media) for her attempts to protect the Olympic torch from pro-Tibet protesters in Paris. But after she questioned the wisdom of a call by some nationalists on the Internet to boycott the French retail giant Carrefour, Jin found herself the subject of Internet attacks branding her "unpatriotic" and a "traitor...
...farming village near the town of Mahmudiya - about 50 miles south of Baghdad - was prime al-Qaeda territory, and a target for numerous raids. On this day, however, small groups of children poked their heads out of doorways to wave; an army medic checked an old woman in a wheelchair; and two families invited the troops to lunch. None of this would have been possible, Zemp said, without the efforts of the newly strengthened Iraqi Army...