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Providing a glimmer of hope in the AIDS fight, researchers have found that a small number of prostitutes in Kenya -- one of the worst-afflicted groups in one of the worst-afflicted countries -- are evidently immune to the virus. If the underlying reason can be found, it might help doctors understand and even cure the disease...
There was a glimmer of hope at week's end that none of this would be necessary. At Sarajevo airport, the commanders of the rebel Serb forces and the Bosnian army signed a cease-fire agreement aimed at "a cessation of armed attacks" throughout the country on Sunday. They also agreed to demilitarize the encircled Muslim towns of Srebrenica and Zepa...
During the 1980s, the Whitney was content to take dictation from dealers and collectors, so that its Biennials tended passively to reflect the fashions of the art market without showing more than an occasional glimmer of independent judgment. The 1993 version is different and scaled to a chastened art world. The sour taste of the collapsed '80s star system has galvanized the "new" Whitney, under its new director David A. Ross, into a veritable transport of social concern. This Biennial, assembled by a team of curators under the supervision of Elisabeth Sussman, is not a survey but a theme show...
...defining key issues, forging a new role for women and making bold fashion statements. Stapled in the magazine's first issue is a mock-edition that documents Hillary Rodham-Clinton's presidential victory over Republican candidate Rush Limbaugh. It's written tongue-in-cheek, but it betrays a faint glimmer of hope...
Harvard soon fought back behind a hustling defense and aggresive rebounding. Captain Tyler Rullman led the charge--he eventually finished with 27 points and grabbed six rebounds--and a glimmer of hope appeared...