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Last year, I marked Lincoln's birthday with a certain bravado. At dinner, I toasted "the noblest man to have ever graced this continent."
Yet Harvard offers not a single course in the history of the former penal colony. True, there are no courses in the history of Alcatraz or of Riker's Island--although I wouldn't put it past the folks over in Robinson Hall. But then again, neither of these prison...
Josephine's tragedy is the tragedy of central Africa. AIDS has swept across the midsection of the continent like an ancient curse, and will soon have extended its reach through most of western and southern Africa. In Uganda the number of AIDS victims is doubling every four to six months...
In Kenya, the press has relentlessly attacked Western news reports on the AIDS epidemic. The latest flap came after London's Daily Mail reported that Prince Charles would carry his own supply of blood with him on an upcoming trip to the continent. PRINCE CHARLES SCARED OF AIDS! screamed the...
The fear of deadly plague seemed to die out after the control of polio in the early 1960s, but the word has been applied to AIDS. In Africa it is a heterosexual disease rapidly infecting the heart of the continent. Around the U.S., health officials are calling for enormous increases...