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...with heavy disease burdens. Congress authorized $1 billion for the Global Fund in 2004, but will likely spend only $550 million—the Bush initiative is calling for just $200 million per year. The Global Fund needs our support now. But the administration is too busy passing the buck. They won’t contribute more, they say, until the European Union (E.U.). does. The E.U. makes the same retort. How convenient. It will take real leadership to break this deadlock; don’t hold your breath...
Sheffield is no young buck himself at age 35, but he did just fine playing in 155 games last year. He also brings a sharp eye (just 55 K’s last season) to the strike-out heavy New York lineup. In comparison, Garcia struck out 52 times in 76 games...
...Protection Week,” the governments of states like Vermont, Hawaii and now Massachusetts can’t be blamed for not holding their breaths. So long as the suffocating Washington climate continues to rule out federal legislation protecting gay marriage, individual states have no choice but to buck that trend by honoring gay rights one by one. With any luck the Massachusetts state legislature will follow the SJC’s lead as soon as possible—about six months, to be precise—and legalize gay marriage...
Balestracci—who is currently among those on the watch list for the Buck Buchanan Award, presented to the nation’s top defender—was one of six Crimson players tapped as members of the first team All-Ivy squad by Ancient Eight coaches in results announced yesterday. The honor mde him the first player in the league’s history to be chosen for the team in each of his four seasons...
...Galper and Rubins gave us a rare treat: a spunky musical to buck us up in the darkest days before our Thanksgiving release. I also appreciated the duo’s attempts to use the play to address our troubled present; as Galper wrote in the program, South Pacific has a “timeless human message of the power of prejudice and the importance of love during a tumultuous time of war.” I’m not sure that South Pacific really works on this level, but I like that this marvelous team viewed it that...