Cerebral Palsy

Before ending the day he had at least four separate meetings with Greek ministers and other important people.

'He is indefatigable,' said a Kalam aide, of his boss's stamina and zest for meeting people and discussing deeply intellectual and philosophical matters - and, of course, of his passion for composing verses and coining memorable lines at every opportunity.

After enchanting Members of the European Parliament with a poem that he had composed in honour of the golden jubilee of the founding of the European Union, he had parents of the mentally challenged children in Athens in tears when he made them repeat with him: 'We are god's children/When god is with us/Nobody can be against us/We will win, we will win, we will win.' And then when he came across a gaggle of American children who had come sightseeing at the Acropolis, Kalam went across to them and, like a kindergarten teacher, made them chor...

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