Word: demandingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HE USED TO BE A SELF-DESCRIBED yuppie, more interested in acquiring houses and cars than in pursuing causes. But Jeff Getty's life changed forever in 1985, when he learned he was HIV positive. Getty, now 38, retired from his job as an administrative analyst at the University of...
All this heavy breathing obscures the fact that except for the color of its stars, Exhale is fairly standard Hollywood pap--sort of Steel Magnolias in black face. Its biggest virtue is that there is not a struggling welfare mama, sassy street-corner "ho" or domineering matriarch in sight. Indeed...
Although few in number, China's pro-democracy activists invariably bear the brunt of any crackdown. That was shown again last month when Wei Jingsheng, the country's most renowned dissident, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for "engaging in activities to overthrow the government." Wei had already spent...
: As protests go, it was unusually orderly: no tear gas, no arrests, no scuffling. About 100 federal employees staged a "work-in" today at a Social Security office in Maryland, demanding that the Clinton Administration and Congress settle the budget dispute and let them get back to work. When asked...
It won't do to be too prissy about absolute fairness, to expect that Newt and his cohort would not reward followers and punish foes. On the other hand, by not demanding some sacrifice from his own supporters, Gingrich and his movement risk being seen as just another engine of...