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Nov./Dec. '98
Blindness (read: 'bad')
"They have turned their faces against the times and are therefore blind." Feminist scholar Catharine R. Stimpson, complaining in the New York Times about critics of the MacArthur "genius" awards. Stimpson is the foundation's program director.
 
A bad sentence from Joni
"I've got a life sentence in this chair." Joni Eareckson Tada, who ought to think a little harder about the message she's sending, talking to prisoners who were remaking wheelchairs for third-world countries. Tada started the JAF Ministries, an evangelical group that runs Wheels for the World, in 1994. Though Eareckson Tada has been around disability rights for decades, her attitudes on disability have never shown much enlightenment.

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