Word: drew
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Hussein also drew attention to the exclusion of a South Asian gay group from an Indian Independence day parade in New York this summer...
That so many did not say no is what horrifies parents and health educators in Chautauqua, who say safe-sex information is widely distributed in the area. As clinics were flooded with young people seeking HIV tests in recent days and an AIDS-education seminar drew hundreds, many, like Sue Genco, a Jamestown mother of three, came to see the Williams case as "our wake-up call...
What is off-putting about My Brother is that it is only glancingly a portrait of her younger half brother Devon Drew, who died of AIDS two years ago in Antigua. Its real subject is Kincaid's scalded psyche: how she felt about Devon's life (contemptuous at its waste--he was a charming, irresponsible, sexually profligate layabout); about his death (torn but loyal--she bought AZT in the U.S., and the drug gave him a remission); and about Antigua (bitter). The underlying, overflowing theme, as always, is anger...
Later in the address, Safire's comment that "respectable journalism is an oxymoron" drew laughter among his peers...
...parents already dropped by my room and saw my empty bed and they know I never get up before I have to, so they obviously drew their own conclusions," she says. "It was really embarrassing since my stuff was out in the common room for everyone to see and I was parading around on a Saturday morning in my Halloween costume and most of my ghoulish make-up still...