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Like most kids infected with AIDS, Nkosi was born with it. He met his father for the first time at his mother's funeral. Taken in as an infant by Gail Johnson, a middle-class white woman who met him while volunteering at a Johannesburg AIDS care center, Nkosi lived a relatively normal childhood. He loved puzzles and cards. "He cheated like hell," remembers Gail. When the former P.R. executive first enrolled Nkosi in primary school, they met opposition from some parents because of his HIV status. Mother and child went public with a complaint and won. Nkosi dreamed...
Nkosi's legacy, jokes Gail Johnson, "is exhaustion." She runs Nkosi's Haven, which gives HIV-positive mothers, their children and AIDS orphans a place to live. She has plans for a series of kibbutz-style farms to house HIV-positive women and children. Convinced that Nkosi lived longer than other HIV-positive children because he lived in a decent house and ate decent food, Gail is determined to help others achieve "normality, that's all. Acceptance." Nkosi, the unlikely messenger, showed others that normality is possible...
...Like most kids infected with AIDS, Nkosi was born with it. He met his father for the first time at his mother's funeral. Taken in as an infant by Gail Johnson, a middle-class white woman who met him while volunteering at a Johannesburg AIDS care center, Nkosi lived a relatively normal childhood. He loved puzzles and cards. "He cheated like hell," remembers Gail. When the former p.r. executive first enrolled Nkosi in primary school, they met opposition from some parents because of his HIV status. Mother and child went public with a complaint and won. Nkosi dreamed...
...Public Affairs Coordinator Gail A. Marcinkiewicz said the agency could not comment on an ongoing investigation...
...format is a pain to pull off. The tight time frame means the first few episodes cement choices that will be hard to reverse if the creators have second thoughts. "We had to lay out a map, literally, of where people were at what hour," says Fox entertainment president Gail Berman. "If somebody's 45 minutes from somebody, you can't just cut to the next scene and they're there." On the plus side, the costume designer's job is a breeze...