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Today Ho is still something of a gambler, though in a very different field and for much bigger stakes. The director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City, he has come up with a daring strategy for flushing out the virus that causes AIDS. As he explained at the 11th International Conference on AIDS in Vancouver, Canada, last summer, Ho (like more and more doctors) is using powerful new drugs called protease inhibitors in combination with standard antiviral medications. But unlike most doctors, he gives the so-called combination therapy to patients in the first...
...also the beginning of a new phase in Ho's career. Philanthropist Irene Diamond had decided to found an AIDS research center in New York City and had chosen Ho as its director. He was 37 years old. "I took a bit of flak because everybody said, 'He's so young, he's unknown.'" she recalls. "I said, 'I don't want a star, I want a wonderful scientist.'" For his part, Ho considered the benefits of having more lab space and secure financial backing. "It was still a risky venture," he remembers. "Marty Hirsch said, 'You're crazy. This...
...equanimity deepened as Ho carved out time for his family. Even at school, he acted as a second father to his brother Sidney, writing constantly with advice and encouragement. Says Sidney, who now works for David as operations manager at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center: "He would take a late flight and get in past midnight, but he would always come to my room and wake me up for a brotherly chat." Ho became a father himself. He and his wife Susan Kuo, an artist, have three children: Kathryn, 18, Jonathan, 15, and Jaclyn, 10. Now and then...
...were important, that it was the time when Nicole Brown Simpson made a final break from her ex-husband. Although Simpson on the stand last week described Nicole as the pursuer--he had called her attentions "incessant" in his deposition--he acknowledges that he gave Nicole a $6,000 diamond-and-sapphire bracelet for her birthday on May 19, but that she returned the gift within two weeks...
...stunning revival of Chicago that just opened on Broadway ought to win over any doubters. In a staging based on last season's acclaimed concert version by the enterprising Encores! series, Walter Bobbie's production is sleek, spare and diamond hard. The story of Roxie Hart is told in a series of fiercely stylized, irony-laced musical episodes. In the Cell Block Tango, Roxie's jailbird peers sing of the men they've bumped off. A slick defense attorney makes his entrance crooning "All I care about is love," accompanied by feather-waving chorines. In the climactic trial, Roxie beats...