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Gallaudet interim chief calm amid storm

By Kathi Wolfe

On December 10th, Robert R. Davila was appointed interim president of Gallaudet University, the country’s premier institution for people who are deaf and hard of hearing. Davila, an educator and former U.S. Department of Education Assistant Secretary who is deaf, took office January 2^nd following his appointment by the Washington, D.C., university’s board of trustees.
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Iraq War Disabled Veterans a New Brand of Hero

By Brenda Brown-Grooms

Heath Calhoun is alive and well. But it took some doing. In July 2003, while serving in the U.S. Army in Mosul, Iraq, Calhoun lost both of his legs when his Humvee was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade launched by insurgents.
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Medicaid Estate Recovery: Is it Fair?

By Eleanor Canter

In 1993 the United States Congress adopted the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act , or OBRA. The idea behind the measure, which passed by one vote in the Senate after a tie-breaking vote by Vice President Al Gore, was to boost the U.S. economy by requiring a balanced budget. To that end, Congress took on entitlement programs, which many lawmakers believed were widely abused by citizens.
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Imagination

By Amy Halloran

I’m sad when I think of my father’s stroke and how it affected his body. And if I’m not near him, feeling the comfort of our togetherness, my sadness grows. Once, my dad had a great physicality. He was a bike rider, golfer, loved to tell jokes with his body, face and voice. Now, I feel sorry for him and the loss of movement he’s had for eighteen months.

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Pioneers of the IL Movement

By Pat Figueroa

The establishment of the Berkeley Center for Independent Living, Inc. (CIL) in California was the beginning of the independent living movement. But this beginning almost did not happen.

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