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...least that seems to be the opinion of the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC). In case you haven’t seen the HAC’s newest posters, they depict President George W. Bush in a fireman’s uniform, holding a severed hose in one hand and a pair of scissors in the other. The posters, which advertise today’s Science Center rally marking World AIDS Day, identify Bush as “Africa Action’s Most Wanted...For Fueling the Fire of AIDS.” How utterly tasteless—and totally...
...first, says Carol, 47, "I was staggered by the lack of competitive drive, the lack of the push-push-push mentality." It took a few years for her to learn that "people who move to secondary markets like this have got to chill." She's even stopped wearing panty hose to work...
...Qaeda cells. "We are now seeing excellent cooperation with U.S. personnel in this fight here in the kingdom," says Jordan. "The Saudis are sharing to a much greater degree the results of interrogations and on a much more timely basis." Another U.S. official refers to a "fire hose" of intelligence flowing out of the crackdown. "We know a lot more about how al-Qaeda operates in Saudi Arabia," he says. "We are getting information on its logistics, financing, operational planning and relations with al-Qaeda leaders outside the kingdom...
Some TV shows get under your skin with lovable characters or subtle writing. Nip/Tuck (FX, Tuesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.) uses a scalpel and liposuction hose. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) and Sean MacNamara (Dylan Walsh) are wealthy Miami plastic surgeons--the former a seductive bad boy, the latter moral but uptight--and this subtle-as-an-implant drama shies away from neither their work's ethical implications nor its grossness. (Don't fix a snack before watching them carve up a patient's face like a radish rosette.) FX aspires to be the poor...
...once again crumbled under pressure to postpone a euro referendum, probably to 2005 or beyond. Subsequent leaks hinted the vote could be earlier - which was spin designed to keep the pro-euro campaigners Blair has been stringing along since 1997 from despairing and cutting off euro campaign funds. To hose down fevered accounts about the volcanic feud between Blair and his longtime ally/rival and euroskeptic-in-chief Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Downing St. had to promise a specific date for the decision - June 9 - and declare that other, pro-euro Cabinet ministers would get their...