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...example, Okaalet recalls a ministers' workshop that MAP organized in Zambia. The leader was a dynamic young woman named Bridget who was HIV positive but didn't reveal her status at first. Toward the end of the program, after she had reviewed how HIV is spread, she told the participants that she was infected. "They were shocked," Okaalet says. "She didn't look like somebody with HIV." They were even more stunned to learn that she contracted HIV from her husband, who was a minister, and that he became infected after having sex with a woman he knew had AIDS...
...Both Bridget and her husband have since died. But the efforts to educate ministers and their congregations and help them face the epidemic continue. "For a long time the church was very quiet," Okaalet says. "We are beginning to respond, but we have to do more...
...Where the Truth Lies” plants itself firmly in the venerable shady-side-of-showbiz genre. This particularly sordid little tale centers on the Martin-and-Lewis-esque 1950s musical/comedy duo of Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) and Vince Collins (Colin Firth, distancing himself from his “Bridget Jones’s Diary” nice-guy image), who perform a yearly telethon to benefit polio victims. Behind the scenes, they indulge in plenty of sex, drugs, fights, and mob connections.The dead girl who opens the film is Maureen O’Flaherty (Rachel Blanchard), a college student...
Four months after their barefoot beach wedding on the Caribbean island of St. John, actress RENEE ZELLWEGER, 36, and her country-singer husband KENNY CHESNEY, 37, have suddenly filed to annul their sudden marriage. In court papers, the Bridget Jones star cited "fraud" as the official reason for the annulment--a legal declaration that the union was invalid from the start--but clarified that the term is "simply legal language and not a reflection of Kenny's character" (though we're not sure she was around long enough to judge). In plain language, fraud means one partner deceived the other...
...mentioned Bridget Jones. What's the distinction between chicklit and romance...