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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Duehay subtly criticized Councillors Kenneth E. Reeves '72, Timothy J. Toomey Jr. and Katherine Triantafillou for voting not to extend Healy's contract earlier this year...
...streets. In the 110[degree] Arizona summer heat, he went door to door, block by block, meeting people, wowing them with his easy charm and his great story. He told voters he had served in Washington, how his relationship with Armed Services chairman John Tower had helped bring a contract to build helicopters to a company in the First District. In the course of the slog, he contracted skin cancer and wore through three pairs of shoes, inspiring his wife to bronze the third...
...forward-looking plan that Zacarias, 70, didn't have the clout to enact. He wasn't popular enough--the school board recently bought out his contract after a bitter power struggle--but even fellow reformers think his plan was too much, too soon. Says board member David Tokofsky: "You've got the unions who want their say. And, of course, there's the facilities issue: Where do you send all these eighth-graders if you can't send them to high school?" The district now says it will stop advancing low-achieving students only in two grades (second and eighth...
...thought I was kidding!) and is currently rockingor rather poppingthrough Europe on their oh-so-demanding lip-synching tour. When they make their U.S. debut later this year, expect mass hysteria (t-shirts, lunchboxes, posters, book tie-ins, etc.oh and a deal with Pepsi once the Ricky Martin contract dies a miserable death in the next few months). After all, theyre young, dreamy and entirely unoriginalwhat more could you want...
...feds already keep track of people with AIDS, but feel that's no longer enough, since advances in treatment mean that a decreasing proportion of HIV-infected individuals contract full-blown AIDS. Compiling a database of the infected makes it easier to track (and prevent) the spread of the disease. But HIV/AIDS, once considered the "gay plague," still carries a stigma, and that could scare many HIV-positive people away from putting their names in a database. They may not be reassured by the CDC recommendation that states make it a felony to release the names of HIV patients. "This...