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...President announced another clean break with the Bush Administration, on foreign policy. Summoning the wisdom of "earlier generations," he said, "They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please." Take that, Dick Cheney - who exited the scene in a wheelchair, looking grim, as if he were about to foreclose on someone. Obama piled on several foreign policy zingers when he denounced the "false ... choice between our safety and our ideals" - a reference to Bush's harsh treatment of prisoners - and in his message to the world: "We are ready...
...front of “Christina’s World,” which the Museum of Modern Art has held since 1949. Christina was a real acquaintance of Wyeth’s, and following a childhood illness was paralyzed from the waist down. She refused to use a wheelchair, and instead grabbed and crawled her way through the physical and metaphoric world. In the painting we can see only her back, laid out on the yellow grasses, tending all the force of her mind and body toward the gray, dilapidated farmhouse at the top of the long hill. This...
Kennedy, 76, was put in a wheelchair after suffering what appears to have been a seizure at the end of the meal. He was escorted to an ambulance by three Senators, Orrin Hatch, John Kerry and Chris Dodd. Kennedy's wife Victoria and his son Patrick accompanied him to a hospital. It was a seizure last spring that led to Kennedy's diagnosis of cancer and subsequent surgery to treat a malignant brain tumor. "I personally wished he hadn't come today," said Senator Hatch. "But he's a person who really does love history ... He wouldn't miss this...
...will find her grotesque. Christina's house contains the anonymous leavings of years of confinement. The smell of burning oil, charred wood, fat cats and old cloth fills the air. Christina, now nearing 70, does not let anyone see how she moves about, stubbornly refuses to use a wheelchair. "Andy's a very good friend," she says. "I like to pose for him. He talks a great deal when he paints, but he doesn't talk nonsense." She does not talk nonsense either. Despite her painful loneliness, she is dignified, proud and intelligent...
...bound to attract opportunists." Peters adds that a surprisingly large number of suits are filed by individuals with significant prior criminal history. "It's hard enough to get a job if you have a criminal record. It's probably harder if you have one and are in a wheelchair. These lawsuits offer an unbelievable amount of money...