Word: augustness
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...only way to forestall the severe economic, political and human consequences of AIDS is to take swift action against the epidemic. Treatment, prevention and education efforts all need far more resources than they currently receive. The U.N.’s international AIDS package that received considerable attention in August has since fallen by the wayside. It needs to be brought back into the public eye and given full funding by Congress as quickly as possible. The U.S. needs to take leadership in the war against AIDS as it did against terrorism, and it must push to get desparately needed...
...Britain in 1992 and took a degree at London's South Bank University. Earlier this year, he enrolled in an Oklahoma flight school that had been visited by two of the Sept. 11 hijackers, and German authorities say he had called the house in Hamburg used by Atta. In August, after suspicious behavior at another flight school in Minnesota, Moussaoui was arrested on immigration charges. Today he is incarcerated in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, refusing to speak to investigators. Daoudi, who was picked up in the British town of Leicester, sits silent in a French jail...
...York Times, which ran its story under a bone-dry headline: BUSH PLANS SPEECHES WITH COHERENT, UNIFIED MESSAGE.) The TelePrompTer is not Bush's friend. Other than in his address to Congress, Bush's voice hasn't been captured by his speechwriters, and no matter how august the setting, smoking out the "evildoers" sounds like a teenager playing a video game. Formal addresses, like high alerts, have diminishing returns. F.D.R. never gave more than four fireside chats a year during World...
...Cambridge, Julia Child will leave for a retirement community in her native state of California, where she has spent winters since 1980. While the quiet neighborhood near Harvard Divinity School has been a “lovely place to live,” Child, who turned 89 in August, says looking after the house has gotten to be too much...
This pressure reached critical proportions after Jason D. Altom, a fifth-year graduate student, committed suicide by swallowing a lethal dose of potassium cyanide in August...