Instead, as a critical thinker, she asked herself what ways she could make even the slightest difference as a college student.

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She added that after her initial diagnosis, none of the hospital staff she came into contact with asked how she was or if she could support herself at home.

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And here, he's doing a movie in which Robin Wright plays a version of herself, and she's being asked by a Hollywood studio executive to kind of digitize herself, give herself over so that her likeness will live on on movie screens long after she does.

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Trying to pull herself together, Moulkheir asked if she could take a break to give her daughter a proper burial.

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The Democratic presidential candidate herself took a much different approach when she was asked whether the case would help Obama -- she ignored the question.

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Margaret Thatcher would no more have identified herself as a woman, or claimed special pleading that she was a mere frail girl, or asked you to sympathize with her because of her sex, than she would have called up the Kremlin and asked how quickly she could surrender.

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