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...once knew a Jekyll-and-Hyde alcoholic who, when sober, might walk for months in the sunshine of his good intentions and sanctimony, a paragon, one of the most respected citizens in town. But inevitably, one day, the thirst would descend upon him and he would revert to the piggy-eyed, spittle-spraying ranter we knew. He always returned to his dark side...
...Then fate, deus ex machina, bizarrely intervenes. Behold: The formidable Giuliani implodes. Troubles descend upon him in an avalanche - not all the sorrows of Job, but a few of them. Giuliani is diagnosed with prostate cancer. His marriage of many years cracks apart, and he handles it maladroitly, announcing the breakup to the world without bothering to tell his wife that the marriage is over. His affair with another woman becomes a feast for tabloids. The private Rudy seems to shriek confirmation of his enemies' suspicions about the public Rudy...
...World Week for Animals in Laboratories," which ran through last week, gave animal rights activists from Boston and beyond an opportunity to descend on the Square and protest the use of primates in laboratory experiments at Harvard and MIT. Caged demonstrators, armed with incendiary photos that allegedly depicted the torturous treatment of primates at the MIT labs, vowed to remain silent for 100 hours in protest of this indignity...
...infuriating the fashion press. Arnault points to John Galliano's spring collections for Dior this year as typical of what he wants from his designers. "His ideas are not meant to be worn," Arnault says of the avant-gardish collection of bag-lady-style ball gowns, "but the ideas descend down to pret-a-porter and to everything in the line. And that's what we sell." So far, Arnault hasn't missed. The hype Dior generated on the runways facilitated the relaunch of the immensely successful and profitable Dior handbag line...
...involvement publicly known. It's certainly ripe fodder for conspiracy theorists that the story detailing the administration's aggressive plan to attack AIDS appeared on the front page of Washington's paper of record on the same day that 300,000 gay activists were expected to descend on the nation's capital for their Millennium March. In these final months of the Clinton administration the President has been scurrying to the left to shore up his legacy on liberal causes. There should be little doubt that the administration wants to be remembered for having done something to battle the plague...