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...school. As we talk about the day's news (AIDS deaths down 19 percent nationwide due to new treatments), he tells me how the conventional wisdom these days is that the new treatments are so powerful that anyone who shows up on the wards with symptomatic AIDS is de facto a psychiatric patient, because you'd have to be insane not to take your medications regularly. This is just bad on-the-wards black humor, but behind it lies the edgier truth that the new medications must be taken with such religious scrupulosity to avoid the development of a resistant...
...that the "mental abnormality" clause in the Kansas statute created too low and too vague a standard for committing a person and so was a violation of due process. They also claimed that the law subjected Hendricks to double jeopardy and that it violated the Constitution's ex post facto clause, which forbids the enactment of new laws that extend punishment for past crimes...
...come July 1, Hong Kong will not be the only locus of ideas and accomplishments that threaten the communists' hold on power. The erosion of the old ideology has led to an astonishing amount of de facto independence in economic activity, in political activity. Because of the reforms the authorities themselves set in motion, says Fang Jing, a Beijing schoolteacher, "we have opened the door to change. You can't keep new ideas out, and you can't slam the door shut again." The very inequalities unleashed in the sprawling nation, says Wang Shi, will keep pushing development forward...
...Harvard operates under secrecy and then does ex post facto damage control," said John T. Trumpbour, an Allston resident who did graduate work at Harvard...
...them," from her well-coifed hair to her well-polished Nikes, and despite, or perhaps because of, the highly stratified world of T-commuting, they would jump to her defense if need be. De facto groups of "us" vs. "them" spring up each day, in each train, on each ride, based upon superficial perceptions such as these...