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Natalie du Toit would have been a perfect candidate for Abbott’s mentoring. But just three years later, in 2001, she was struck by a car on her way back to school from swim practice, and lost her left leg at the knee as a result. Be everything you want to be,” du Toit regularly reminds her fans during interviews.

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People aren’t moving into gated communities simply to avoid muggers and housebreakers”, he said in a 1998 interview. And although a Brutalist high rise lends itself to the idea of class and hierarchy, that isn’t his main theme. They’re moving in … to get away from other people.

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When the NFL set out to counter charges of bias in its upper ranks, she adds, it prompted the creation of the Rooney Rule , requiring its franchises to interview minority candidates for an increasing variety of open roles. Students find mentors, a sense of community and a place to find answers to their questions.

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