One of the biggest problems is schooling: Roma children are routinely placed in institutions for the mentally handicapped.

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Foundation, which funds Catholic organizations and institutions for the mentally handicapped.

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The Missionaries of Charity runs hostels for lepers, AIDS patients, the crippled and mentally handicapped, unwed mothers, abandoned children, alcoholics, drug abusers.

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When they arrived, there was also a caregiver, because the father, too, was severely mentally handicapped.

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An Irish businessman sent his private jet to Baghdad where it picked up eight Iraqi mentally handicapped athletes who wanted to take part in the Special Olympics, which open this week in Ireland.

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She founded the Special Olympics in 1968, in part because of her experience with her mentally handicapped sister, Rosemary.

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Like everyone else in school, he's got a crush on a beautiful girl named Mary (Cameron Diaz, mostly eyes and legs.) One day, after he tries to rescue Mary's mentally-handicapped brother from a cruel bully, Mary asks Ted to the prom.

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