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...garbage war, we discover, is the new target of the long-running FBI investigation against him, and the Feds spend the taut first episode trying to plant a bug in Tony's basement - the one place in his house where he talks business - to the sound of the "Peter Gunn" theme mixed with the Police's "Every Breath You Take" (no TV series uses its soundtrack more wryly and effectively...
...report on government approval of the sale of the abortion pill RU 486 [NATION, Oct. 9] included a reference to Dr. Lisa Tucker, who we said works at the Florida clinic where Dr. David Gunn was murdered in 1993. Dr. Tucker does not work at that clinic, and she does not perform abortions. Also, our chart showing the decline in abortions mistakenly included percentage signs. The abortion rate per 1,000 women ages...
...doctors and nurses who, when they arrive for work at a clinic, confront protesters who refer to their children by name. "Many doctors feel if someone else provides it, why bother? Somebody else will do it," observes Dr. Lisa Tucker, who works at the Florida clinic where Dr. David Gunn was murdered seven years ago. Experts liken this debate to the one over physician-assisted suicide: "A lot of doctors believe in it but say they won't do it themselves because they don't need the hassle," says George Annas, a medical ethicist at Boston University School of Public...
DIED. CRAIG STEVENS, 81, actor, born Gail Shikles Jr., who transformed the television private-eye genre as suave detective Peter Gunn in the Blake Edwards' series of the same name; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
Advancing age and the AIDS-related deaths of friends--"my everpresent dead"--figure prominently in these poems, but so does Gunn's humorous touch. In "Blues for the New Year, 1997," he notes, with tongue-in-cheek stoicism, "I'm sixty-seven/and have high blood pressure,/and probably shouldn't/be doing speed at all." When a male acquaintance appears at his door, disheveled and asking for a night's rest, the inquiring poet notes: "You don't feel anecdotal,/Give me a weary grin, And eat three plates of Total." Seeing a renowned bar brawler in his decline, Gunn...