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...unscarred, she left hospital and slowly put her life back together. But on a baking-hot day two years ago, Fogarty, who lives in rural Victoria, smelled smoke on the wind - and started falling apart. "It just awakened all my memories," she says. "It was almost like reliving the fire all the time." Telling herself that after so many years "I ought to be over this," she struggled to cope alone. But soon she was so anxious she could barely leave the house...
...late 2003. Earlier this year, the route we were traveling was so rife with violence that the trip would have been impossible. In the past year, the roads south of Baghdad have started to stabilize, thanks to the efforts of Iraqi and U.S. troops and a cease-fire declaration by radical opposition cleric Muqtada al-Sadr...
Haviland’s first two years in crimson and white seemed to seal his status as a sure-fire draft pick when he was ready to leave Harvard. His 2006 sophomore campaign, which earned him Ivy League Pitcher of the Year honors, saw him throw a complete game in each of his five league starts en route to a 0.73 league...
...Biden made passionate, incisive arguments but was ridiculed for such prolonged grandstanding during confirmation hearings that nominees often were rendered silent as Biden drained the allotted time with his own seemingly endless monologues. Out on the campaign trail as a two-time presidential candidate, he roused audiences with his fire and eloquence but sometimes turned them off with tactless blunders and goofs, like when he famously snapped at a voter before a C-SPAN camera and noted that in Delaware "you cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." In January...
Uncharacteristically tentative and nervous, and sometimes spoke too fast. At times he appeared drained of the passion that animated his strongest debates as a presidential candidate. Grew more intense near the end, but without much personality or fire. Still, reassuringly stolid and tough...