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...certainly capable of making them," an elated coach Kathy Delaney Smith said. "Kelly's had every adversity thrown at her. She's playing with a stress fracture in her left foot. She deserves this...
...Grozny was like nothing I had ever experienced in Afghanistan. The commander of my vehicle had no map of the city and no idea where he was going. He was not even able to make radio contact with the other two APCs and admitted that he had simply been thrown together with soldiers and vehicles from different units and told to advance into the city...
...Henry Foster's nomination as Surgeon General of the U.S. was thrown into chaos today after Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) urged President Clinton to withdraw his choice, calling it "a political blunder in the extreme." He then reversed himself, explaining that he was criticizing White House handling of the nomination but had reached no decision as to how he will vote. Earlier, a stinging New York Times editorial called the pick "badly bungled" and one that should "die quickly." The powerful American Medical Association, which speaks for about 300,000 U.S. doctors, strongly supported Foster today, though its endorsement...
...definitely a stronger person because of mydepression," he says. "In the long-run, I'm gladit happened. I feel like everything I should havelearned about life growing up was thrown into thisone year. Although it sucked that it happened allat once, my life is so much better now."You Know You're Depressed When...
Should an employer be allowed to derail an employee's discrimination suit by unearthing evidence of past misconduct that would have independently justified the firing of the worker? No, said a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court, ruling that discrimination suits are too important to be thrown out of court by after-the-fact fault finding; but past misconduct may be used to limit the remedy available to the worker by, for example, excluding the possibility of reinstatement...