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By KATHERINE LONGSeattle Times higher education reporter
When he was discharged from theArmy in 2013, Clinton Foriska’sformal education included only
a highschool diploma.It wasn’t much, for a guy who likes to say
he didn’t come from much. But Foriska, who was 27 at the time, thought he could do more.
“I wanted to do something extraordinary— I always wanted to be a doctor. But I never knew how to get there.”
Four years later, he has found his path.He’s set to graduate from the University of
Washington Bothell on June 10 with a nearperfect GPA. Earlier this month, he was awarded UW Bothell’s Chancellor’s Medal, given to inspirational students who overcome significant obstacles.
And this fall, he’ll start his first year of medical school at Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences, a private fouryear school for osteopathic medicine in Yakima. He hopes to work with veterans living in rural areas when he graduates.
At UW Bothell, Foriska is known for his sense of humor and gettheworkdone approach to college. “Ultimately, he’s a problemsolver,” said Heather Galindo, an instructor of biological sciences at UW Bothell.
“He has that ability to take a humorous approach to things, which can put people at
ease, but he can also be very sincere,” she said. “For veterans in rural areas, he’s going to be a really great fit for that population.”
Phillip Carpenter, a professor at UW Bothell, got to know Foriska well. Foriska, as a soldier, “experienced a version of life that many citizens won’t ever be able to relate in the first perspective,” Carpenter
said in an email. “Rather than become hardened and pessimistic, the adversity inspired him to help others after he was discharged.”
Foriska was a combat soldier stationed inIraq in 2009 and 2010, and he looks healthy and strong today. But he suffers from a range of physical ailments, including back
See > VET DOCTOR, A12
From combat to med school, this soldier is persevering
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Clinton Foriska served in Iraq before suffering a range of ailments and being medically retired by the Army. But “you’re trained to never quit,” he says, and he’ll soon graduate with a nearperfect GPA and a clear plan for the future.
E VER FORWARD | Clinton Foriska is graduating from UW Bothell with an award for overcoming obstacles. Next, he’ll work on becoming a doctor to serve fellow veterans.
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Clinton Foriska served on a Stryker squad in Baqubah, Iraq. Here, their vehicle is stuck in the mud.
By HAL BERNTONSeattle Times staff reporter
PORTAUPRINCE, Haiti— After the 2010 earthquake, Jean Ronald Cherisier was fortunate to take ownership of a oneroom house with a concrete floor, wooden walls and a metal roof.
Federal Waybased World Vision built it east of PortauPrince, the nation’s capital, in a new community called Corail. Cherisier thought factories and jobs might eventually come, but they never did. So he moved his family a few hundred feet away to a
dirtfloor shack formedfrom scraps of tin roofing.Then, he rented out the“old” house for $15 amonth.
Cherisier uses these payments to buy chickens, pigsand goats, which he butchers and sells to his neighbors through a barebonesoperation, without runningwater or electricity, underthe blistering tropical sun.
“I would like to have another jobopportunity,” Cherisier said. “But I have found a way to survive.”
Eight years after the earthquakeSee > HAITI, A10
Haitians resilient eight years after quake
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World Vision, based in Federal Way, helped build the houses in Corail. World Vision erected 1,187 “transitional shelters” for $4,500 each.
A REPORTER’S RETUR N | ‘Resources are drying up,’ Federal Waybased World Vision says. Grand dreams of using recovery aid to forge a more prosperous nation have faded.
Jean Ronald Cherisier “found a way to survive.”
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By MICHAEL D. SHEARAND DAVID E. SANGERThe New York Times
WASHINGTON — The UnitedStates and North Korea on Sunday kicked off an urgent, behindthescenes effort to resurrect a summit meeting between their two leaders by June 12, racing to develop a joint agenda and dispel deep skepticism about the chances for reaching a framework for a lasting nuclear agreement in so little time.
Technical and diplomatic experts from the United States made a rare visit to North Korea to meet with their counterparts, U.S. officials said Sunday. Before any summit meeting, the U.S. team, led by Sung Kim, a veteran diplomat, is seeking detailed commitments from Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, about his regime’s willingness to abandon its nuclearweapons program.
In a tweet Sunday night, President Donald Trump confirmed the meetings in the North Korean part of Panmunjom, a “truce village” in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas. He also expressed his administration’s newfound optimism about the meeting, further embracing the conciliatory language both sides have used since he canceled the planned meeting
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By LOUIS LUCERO IIThe New York Times
Hoping to thwart a sophisticated malware system linked to Russia that has infected hundreds of thousands of internet routers, the FBI has made an urgent request to anybody with one of the devices: Turn it off, and then turn it back on.
The malware is capable of blocking web traffic, collecting information that passes through home and office routers, and disabling the devices entirely, the bureau announced Friday.
A global network of hundredsof thousands of routers is already under the control of the Sofacy Group, the Justice Department said last week.
That group, which is also known as APT 28 and Fancy Bear and believed to be directed by Russia’s military intelligence agency, hacked the Democratic
See > ROUTER, A12
Diplomats hustling to revive summit
U.S., NORTH KOREAN ENVOYS MEET IN DMZ
Trump optimistic nuclear talks can go as planned
FBI: Reboot your router tostop malware tied to Russia
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