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Teddy, who died Jan. 13 at 59, came from a spiritual family in North Philadelphia, and after a tragic automobile accident in 1982 left him paralyzed from the chest down, the faith he'd inherited from his mother Ida helped sustain him. Despite his own injuries, Teddy dedicated the rest of his life to helping others with spinal-cord trauma. He was our best friend, a great humanitarian and a tremendous musical force. His legacy will live...
...students, we read about this tragedy with an intellectual curiosity and a shared belief that these events are tragic and something must be done. Unfortunately, we stop there. We find ourselves following the tragedy in the news, speaking about it with our friends, agreeing something must be done, and then going about our daily business. After all, we haven’t figured out our classes yet, and that’s important, right...
What’s so wrong with that, you ask? What’s wrong with allowing people to make choices that in turn make them feel better about themselves? To be honest, I don’t really have an answer other than that it’s tragic that one must feel thin in our society to feel happy and that it must be exponentially more painful to wear skinny jeans than it is to watch someone wearing them...
Counter compared his case to several others, including that of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. this past summer. He called the Gates case “a tragic reflection of the kind of racial profiling and hostility that African-Americans, especially men, face every...
...successful completion of this election. Though it is unlikely that Sunni parties will again boycott the election or return to violent tactics, the parliament's sleight of hand could be a warning that however much the White House and the American public would like to close the tragic book on Operation Iraqi Freedom, a stable and democratic Iraq is far from mission accomplished...