Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...certain novelty arises when Carl's leg is shattered in an accident. The Navy wants him to retire. Instead he orders the leg amputated, thinking a prosthesis will be less of a handicap to him on duty. We may never have seen courage expressed in quite that way, but it's also an excuse to bring a sobered-up Billy back to help Carl prove to a review board that he can return to active service. This, naturally, he does, presumably with the thanks of a grateful nation...
...certain novelty arises when Carl's leg is shattered in an accident. The Navy wants him to retire. Instead he orders the leg amputated, thinking a prosthesis will be less of a handicap to him on duty. We may never have seen courage expressed in quite that way, but it's also an excuse to bring a sobered-up Billy back to help Carl prove to a review board that he can return to active service. This, naturally, he does, presumably with the thanks of a grateful nation...
...social group has stretched to encompass gender (women facing genital mutilation in Togo) and sexual orientation (gay men in Mexico). For the first time, the disabled are demanding the same consideration. Says Bill Strassberger, an INS spokesman: "Cases that involve persons seeking asylum directly based upon a handicap seem to be a recent development...
...Cheney needed another handicap, the relatively informal format of tonight's meeting - which will be held around a table, moderated by CNN's Bernard Shaw - could prove problematic. Cheney?s formal manner is better suited to more traditional debate protocol. If Lieberman can capitalize on his trademark humor early in the exchange, it's hard to imagine Cheney mustering the verbal energy to claim momentum...
...that the spring practice system has been in place for six years, other Ivy programs have grown more confident in their ability to open outside of the conference, but the one-week delay before the start of the Ivy season is still a glaring handicap, and Harvard administrative rules--which bar freshmen from practicing during the week before the season opener--augment the problem...