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Among the thousands of supporters who gathered last Friday afternoon hoping to glimpse Escobar's body before it was lowered into his grave, few remembered that more than 20 years ago, he had launched his ascension to head the world's most powerful drug organization by selling tombstones he had stolen. Pablo Escobar's career was ending exactly where it began -- in a Medellin graveyard...
Testing and contact tracing may lead to a person's being deprived of a job, health insurance, housing and privacy, many civil libertarians fear. These are valid and grave concerns. But we can find ways to protect civil rights without sacrificing public health. A major AIDS-prevention campaign ought to be accompanied by intensive public education about the ways the illness is not transmitted, by additional safeguards on data banks and by greater penalties for those who abuse HIV victims. It may be harsh to say, but the fact that an individual may suffer as a result of doing what...
...label's star. Doggystyle, released Nov. 23, sold 800,000 copies in its first week and enters this week's Billboard charts at No. 1. Associates of Snoop lounge around Death Row, loose and jovial. Snoop, 22, smiles along, autographing posters of himself. Despite the happy mood, he has grave legal troubles. Police say that in West Los Angeles one evening in August, he was driving when his bodyguard shot a man to death from the car. Charged with being an accomplice to murder, Snoop says he's not guilty and is free on $1 million bail...
...particularly poignant moment occurs duringa scene in which Cyril and Shirley have taken atrip up to Highgate cemetry to visit the grave ofKarl Marx. Cyril starts lamenting the erosion ofindividual freedom, anticipating that "by the year2000 there'll be 36 television stations 24 hours aday, telling you what to think." At this veryinstant the couple are engulfed by a crowd ofstereotyped Japanese tourists, chattering andsnapping away furiously at Marx's statue withtheir telephoto lenses. The sequence provides acommentary on the futility of protest in a worldof mass production and mass-communication. TheBritish don't like change, but somehow we willeventually...
...planning for the future, Harvard should keep that mission in mind, no matter how grave and tempting Rudenstine thinks the world's problems...