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McCain Defends Palin
Washington/5A — John McCain and Joe
Lieberman defended Sarah Palin during
a conference call with Jewish leaders and
supporters. During the Sunday morning
tele-town hall meeting, McCain said his
running mate was criticized as a "threat to
the left-wing feminist liberal movement"
due to her being the mother of five chil-
dren as well as a "reformer, a conservative,
a tax-cutter and a spending cutter."
Lieberman, who introduced McCain on
the call, described Palin as "very able and
said that while Palin "holds some posi-
tions on social issues which, I'll be honest,
I don't agree with:' she "holds them in a
very respectful way."
"She respects people who come to the
other position:' he said, adding, "I find her
not to be ideological in a rigid sense. She's
a practical problem solver."
The Connecticut senator, an
Independent, added that the Republican
vice-presidential nominee "has a deep love
for the State of Israel" equal to McCain's.
McCain also discussed his views on the
status of Jerusalem, saying in his opening

statement that "Jerusalem remains undi-
vided" and then repeating twice that the
city "is undivided and must remain the
capital of Israel." He added that he would
"never press Israel into making conces-
sions that would endanger its security."
Lieberman later emphasized McCain's
promised to move the U.S. Embassy to
Jerusalem "as soon as he becomes presi-
dent."

Iran Rips U.N.
Tehren/JTA — Iran called its failure in
a bid to win a non-permanent seat on
the United Nations Security Council an
obvious injustice. Iran's Foreign Ministry
spokesman Hasan Qashqavi made the
comment and decried Japan's attempts to
"monopolize" the seat, in a statement to
reporters in Teheran on Monday. Japan
won the secret vote for the Asian council
seat on Friday with 158 votes to 32 votes.
It is the 10th time Japan will sit on the
council. The Islamic Republic may have
been the first country to campaign for a
Security Council seat while under sanc-
tions from the world body. ❑

Can Illness Be A Gift?

Taking a new look at cancer survivorship.

uthor and health journalist Jill
Sklar will speak on "Discovering
A the Gifts of Illness" in a free talk
as part of the Karmanos Cancer Institute's
Survivorship University lecture series.
There is a community of empathy for
millions of Americans
struggling to understand
and access their new
lives after a major diag-
nosis.
Using the findings
of her groundbreak-
ing book The Five
Gifts of Illness: A
Jill Sklar
Reconsideration, partici-
pants will: Learn about
the emerging trend of
survivorship; discuss the positive trans-
formative experiences of chronic or acute
life-threatening illnesses; and discover the
gifts in their lives as a result of the illness

experience.

Sklar will present
her lecture twice: at
6:30-8 p.m. Thursday,
Oct. 30, at Gilda's Club,
517 Rochester Road,
Royal Oak and at 7-8:30
p.m. Thursday, Nov.
Pat Sachs
6, at Mount Clemens
Regional Medical Center,
1000 Harrington Blvd., Mt. Clemens.
Survivorship University is an education-
al program begun in 2005 by Karmanos
Community Education Director Patricia
Milner Sachs to help patients and their
loved ones live with, through and beyond
cancer.
Sachs, SU's "founding dean:' succombed
to melanoma in 2006.
To RSVP, call (800) 527-6266 or
register online at www.karmanos.org/
survivorshipu/registration.aspx.

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How to treat prostate cancer may be controversial but preventing it should not be...

Prostate Cancer

A lecture and discussion by

Jeffrey D. Forman, M.D., FACR

Michigan Medical Director, 21st Century Oncology

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 7:00pm
Knollwood Country Club

Dessert and coffee • Valet parking

`An Ounce of Prevention is worth a pound of Cure"
- Benjamin Franklin

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A public service presentation of

MIRO & MCCI

j2111 Century Oncology Affiliate

www.21stcenturyoncology.com

Providing a full-range of radiation therapies centers for more than 20 years

5050 W Maple Rd.
West Bloomfield

p. W. Maple

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To RSVP, call 248-338-0300

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October 23 • 2008

