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Individual tragedies easily become subsumed within impersonal statistics. Their various plights are often the result of the accretion of missteps after which the descent into the bleak underside of life seems unstoppable...
...former mayor, who is of Irish descent, returns to the state in two weeks to participate in St. Patrick's Day events and many feel he will officially declare his candidacy then...
...scholarship given only to those of French Huguenot descent is not designed to eliminate the French Catholic population at Harvard...
Through auditions he selected two black youths, a white, one of Indian descent and one of mixed race (or, in South African parlance, colored). After school and on weekends, he will meet with them to develop a text based on their experiences and hopes, to be performed in June and July in schools and at a festival in his hometown of Port Elizabeth, then on a professional stage in Johannesburg...
...contains vivid accounts, based on individual case histories, of death's major causes, from accidents to Alzheimer's to AIDS. One of Nuland's case histories involves a drug addict and AIDS victim he calls Ishmael Garcia. With chilling clarity, the author describes Garcia's gradual and painful "descent into the valley of fever and incoherence" via pneumonia, meningitis and lymphoma of the brain. As he lay dying, Garcia was taking 14 experimental medications, none of which slowed what Nuland calls "a jet- propelled pestilence." Death certificates require that attending doctors state a cause; Nuland points out that for most...