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...deadly sting just the same.AIDS has taken both her parents. "I was nine years old when my mother died," Nicole (not her real name) calmly begins her story. "She told me that my father did drugs and died of AIDS, and that she got it from him." Nicole's grownup demeanor disappears, however, when she starts to read aloud a letter she wrote in the year after her mother died: "Dear Mom . . . I miss you so much. That day at the funeral I just looked at you, and I saw someone else in the coffin. I was saying to myself...
...however, Wall Street in the '90s has lived up to the decade's reputation for grownup -- some call it downright uninspired -- behavior. Most '90s deals have been friendly strategic mergers in which the buyers use stock instead of debt and the partners exchange handshakes instead of lawsuits. Typical was last week's $4 billion agreement for financial conglomerate Primerica to acquire the 73% that it does not already own of Travelers, the insurance company. So too were AT&T's $12.6 billion deal for McCaw Cellular in August and the $6 billion merger agreement between drug firms Merck and Medco...
...family fare. Well, yes and no. That is to say, you could safely bundle the brood off to Into the West and no harm would come to them. But a grownup could sneak off to it all alone and have an extremely rewarding evening. For stallion and friends are Irish, meaning that an aura of Celtic mysticism surrounds the horse and a rebellious, wandering spirit moves in eight-year-old Ossie (Ciaran Fitzgerald) and 12-year-old Tito (Ruaidhri Conroy...
...opportunity to deliver the closing argument. Then they often walk out of the room together, heads nearly touching, giving Gore that all-important hallway time that is private and frank. It may help that at 45, Gore, who has served in Washington for almost 17 years, is a grownup in a house of tyros. "Any understanding of Al Gore has to come from the fact that he is the President's most senior adviser," says George Stephanopoulos, who has some titular claim to that status as the President's senior adviser for policy and strategy...
...gloomy mansion in the Maine resort town where Chuck and family are vacationing, comes in. Pretty soon McLeod is talking out of both sides of his mouth -- a stern taskmaster one minute, an indulgent mentor the next -- and little Chuck is flourishing in the company of the first grownup male who has ever taken him seriously...