Keyword: awakenings
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Stories like these are tailor-made for our current Internet moment: Jennifer Flewellen was driving to work on Sept. 25, 2017, when her life changed forever. Flewellen, then 35, had just dropped her three young sons off at school when she became lightheaded while on the phone with her husband, according to her mom Peggy Means. The Michigan mother of three "veered off the road and ... hit a pole," after which she was put in a medically induced coma. She remained in a coma for five years — but then she woke up, has continued to recover, and has "completed...
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Czech cinematographer Miroslav Ondricek, who was nominated for Oscar twice and cooperated with Czech-born director Milos Forman, died on Saturday evening at the age of 80, Martha Issova, partner of his son David, told CTK today. Ondricek is famous in the Czech Republic and abroad primarily for his cooperation with Forman in Czechoslovakia and in the United States. Both film-makers are leading personalities of the Czech New Film Wave of the 1960s.
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John Maynard Keynes was twitted with changing his mind. He replied, "When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?" . . . And I realized that the time had come for me to avow my participation in that America in which I chose to live, and that that country was not a schoolroom teaching values, but a marketplace. . . . Aha," you will say, and you are right. I began reading not only the economics of Thomas Sowell (our greatest contemporary philosopher) but Milton Friedman, Paul Johnson, and Shelby Steele, and a host of...
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Bruce Feirstein: Bill Clinton, Nasty Man
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WARSAW (AFP) - A Pole who spent 19 years in a coma has woken up and will now have to adapt to a country where the communists are no longer in power, a television station announced Friday. Railwayman Jan Grzebski fell into a coma after he was hit by a train in 1988, the private channel Polsat said. In an interview, Grzebski said that he owed his survival to his wife, Gertruda. "She's the one who always took care of me. She saved my life," he said. Grzebski was a father of four at the time of the accident. He...
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A judge has rejected a family's plea that a 53-year-old woman in a vegetative state should be allowed to die. He has ordered instead that she should be given a drug that could wake her up. Theoretically the patient could then spend the rest of her life severely disabled and aware of her condition. Sir Mark Potter, president of the High Court Family Division, says the woman should be given zolpidem, a common sleeping pill. It has been used before on victims of severe brain damage who have then regained consciousness. The woman, who cannot be named, suffered a massive...
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There are things that move our spirits, words that God uses to comfort, aid, help and heal. For me, perhaps because I do poetry, some of what has been important have been hymns, certain poetic passages from the Bible and well-known prayers. There was a thread I saw about how sappy and "I" centered a lot of the hymns of the last two hundred years have been, and that is probably true, but at the same time, these can have the power to draw us ever closer, or kick us over the edge when we nearly ready to fall into...
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July 1, 2002, 8:45 a.m.Rude Awakenings Some effects of the Middle East wars on U.S. campuses. By Jay Nordlinger, from the July 15, 2002, issue of National Review When the Arab-Israeli conflict flared again, the reaction on campus was dramatic. It could have been expected to be anti-Israel, and severely so; but it was even more anti-Israel than usual. It was more anti-Semitic, too. (Sadly, these two "anti-"s seem to be going together more and more lately.) Also unusual, however, was the response of pro-Israel students and faculty, chiefly Jews: They were more determined, less cringing, more defiant than in...
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