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...Time Magazine's 1996 Man of the Year and director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York, spoke to Harvard students and scientists about his revolutionary research into potential cures for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS...
...Lord's eponymous debut, for instance, the wistful effect of songs like "Helsinki" and "He'd Be a Diamond" was enhanced by the simple production values of girl-and-guitar, while "Lights are Changing," the only band-backed song, set the album off to a more invigorating start. In fact, as an album, Mary Lou Lord provided hope that the folk genre goals of simplicity did not preclude melodiousness and rhythm...
...strike, at Diamond Walnut Growers in Stockton, Calif., was just such an issue. After 700 union members walked out in 1991, the firm hired replacement workers to process and package its 100,000 tons of nuts a year. The Teamsters demanded the jobs back, and the company refused, a standoff that persists today. But in 1995 the strike was seen by presidential aides as a chance, the memo said, to "rekindle" the Teamster bosses' affection for Clinton. Identifying the strike as one of Carey's "biggest problems," the memo urged Ickes to "assist in any way possible...
...assist he did. Teamster officials, with a fine understanding of political pressure points, asked Ickes to put Kantor on the case. Who better to jawbone the management of Diamond Walnut than the man charged with opening foreign markets for American nuts? "I remember calling Mickey and saying, 'This is something bothering the Teamsters,'" Ickes told TIME. Said a White House veteran familiar with the issue: "Implicit in such messages is, Bring pressure to bear...
...interview last week, Kantor said he called the company, but out of a long-standing interest in farm workers. He said he discussed the company's views of the strike with a top official and asked "what were the prospects" of settlement, but did not offer a solution. Diamond Walnut does a third of its business overseas, a share Kantor could have helped boost as Trade Rep. Still, he says the contacts were "appropriate." A Senate committee is investigating whether he is right...