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...year-old Bostonian knew he was taking a chance when he visited a bathhouse for a homosexual tryst. It wasn't until the condom broke and he saw the blood that he blanched. Had he picked up HIV, the virus that causes AIDS? The next morning, he called his physician, Dr. Stephen Boswell of the Fenway Community Health Center, in a panic. Could the doctor please do something to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IF THE CONDOM BREAKS | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...conversation will continue until you feel guilty about your productivity quotient or until he gets a call on the two-way. Dan knows everyone on sight, inside and outside the house. He comes early, stays late, and unlocks the door for you before you're within earshot of his Bostonian voice. Truly as asset to the Universty...

Author: By Gabriel B. Eber, | Title: Those I Will Not Forget | 5/16/1997 | See Source »

...General John Sheehan, commander of the U.S. Atlantic Command (his main rival is the current Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman, Air Force General Joseph Ralston), would make him the first Marine to serve as the nation's top military officer and could spur serious change. The 6-ft. 2-in. Bostonian and decorated Vietnam vet has riled the Air Force by questioning costly new warplanes, unnerved the Navy by doubting the value of carriers and irked the Army by suggesting the mothballing of some tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIT AND ABOLISH | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...Living so close gives us an advantage," said Bostonian Robert P. Dunford. "Having a student here has opened up a lot of doors. Meeting her roommates and hearing about her activities has helped us get a lot more out of the University than we did before...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, | Title: Juniors' Parents Storm Campus | 3/8/1997 | See Source »

Vaux will also show films of various dialects and even bring in native speakers. And there are no papers and no exams--just a midterm project on your own dialect and a final project on your own dialect and a final project on a native Bostonian's speaking style...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: eleven electives | 2/1/1997 | See Source »

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