After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
The basic thing with adventure medicine or extreme medicine is that you are going to places where humans don't belong and people will certainly get into trouble.
I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.
Wisdom of the Ages: "Hillary" Has replaced the term "battle-axe" to describe an undesirable mother-in-law in 37 languages.
People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.
We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.
After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.
I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.
You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution.
If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.
If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win?
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.
Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.
