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...people also want heroes, and Cleland offers voters a life story full of sacrifice and struggle. He was a fresh-faced 6-ft. 3-in. former high school basketball star from Lithonia, Georgia, when he ignored the advice of family and friends and volunteered for combat duty in Vietnam. He lost two legs and an arm to a grenade explosion and, as he describes in his brutally honest memoir, Strong at the Broken Places, came home to battle indifferent medical care, bouts of depression and social rejection. Among the low points: going out on a date and, while crossing...
...metal alloy in my knee is called kryptonite," Parker laughs. "So in hand-to-hand combat, I think I could take Superman...
...Coop is taking measures to combat the rising prices, Mooney said, like encouraging the sale of more used books than in the past. The Coop offers students 50 percent off the cover price of their books if they will be used again in a class in an upcoming semester...
...until his hosts set him straight. By age 80, most of the Struldbruggs were "melancholy and dejected," so cut off from pleasure that they were "dead to natural affection." By 90, they were so senile that they could neither sustain a conversation nor read a book. Left alone to combat their assorted physical ailments, Struldbruggs could at best look forward to an eternity of "envy and impotent desires." They were, Gulliver concluded, "the most mortifying sight I ever beheld...
...CLELAND Democrat--Georgia Cleland, a Vietnam War hero who lost both legs and one arm in combat, won Sam Nunn's seat by 28,000 votes over Guy Millner...