Jack Kevorkian’s death has stirred much emotion in me. Millions of individuals around the world believe he was a champion for compassion, intelligence, and humanity. Millions more believe he was the opposite. I think he was a champion and here is why: My father died of brain cancer late last year. He had spent most [...]
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Moving to a small area in Brooklyn in my mid-twenties was the first time I made the distinction between neighborhood and community. In common language and on the news, the words are often interchanged but they are not remotely similar. A neighborhood is a collection of people geographically bound by some physical or official designation [...]
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