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...gays are smiling about their self-imposed curbs on sex. "It's like having a third party hi the room, warning you not to do this or that," says one Boston man. "It makes the sex stilted and clinical." Others see some benefits. Gays who could never before commit themselves are being propelled into long-term relationships; they are being pushed into deeper emotional involvements. "I think there has been a tremendously constructive response to AIDS by the gay community," says Susan Tross, a psychologist at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who has studied...
...charges originally filed against Whitworth on June 17 were grave enough. The one-count indictment accused him of conspiring to commit espionage, claiming that he had given John Walker, a longtime Navy friend, "cryptographic key lists and key cards" that were later sold to Soviet agents. Such keys would allow the Soviets to eavesdrop on coded Navy communications, and even, in the opinion of one communications expert, to change Navy messages for their own deceptive purposes. Holding the highest security clearances, Whitworth had been in charge of cryptographic centers on the carrier Enterprise and at the sprawling Alameda Naval...
...childhood, which was dominated by Aunt Dan (Linda Hunt), a slightly sinister friend of her parents. Aunt Dan, it turns out, is crazy, but crazy in the way some people are at cocktail parties; she is able to find a plausible argument for almost any evil that governments commit, and she has turned Lemon into her philosophical clone. "Lemon presents the justification for pure selfishness," says Shawn, "even for sadistic murder. The question is raised: To what extent have we already accepted these justifications? I intentionally set out to leave the audience frustrated and unsatisfied...
...lite "control any independent capital" that would otherwise allow them to influence corporate South Africa and that their investments are "often at [their own] considerable financial risk." He also sees more than a touch of racism in the criticism: "It appears that white South Africans are prepared to commit class suicide in defense of the status quo. If I were a white South African, I would welcome a situation where black people join my class and take on some of my values...
...piece of electronic equipment that he had never purchased. By last week that apparent billing error had blossomed into a full-fledged hacker scandal and led to the arrest of seven New Jersey teenagers who were charged with conspiracy and using their home computers and telephone hookups to commit computer theft...