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...rule out rat poison and cancer with a blood test ($45) and a liver scan ($140). Then there was the emergency work-up ($45), followed by a catheter ($30), urinalysis ($22), a steroid injection and lab work to check organ function ($71); anesthesia ($345); an IV attached to a leg ($110); a biopsy ($45); upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy for fiber-optic images of his stomach, small intestine and colon ($75); antibiotics and Tagamet for the ulcer ($25); plus five days of hospitalization...
Never mind that he was wrong. Most decisions of the UN General Assembly, including the "Zionism is Racism" resolution, do not in fact have the status of international law. (See the UN Charter, Chapter IV, Articles 10-14.) No big deal. After glancing at the paper in my hand, I had few illusions that our discussion would deal with verifiable facts. (The first line of the SAS flier said that the UN would vote on the "Zionism is Racism" resolution on December 17. The vote was yesterday. Check the date at the top of this page, and then...
...epidemic has hit the U.S. in three waves. The first occurred among homosexual men and is now leveling off. The second swept through pockets of IV-drug users, especially in certain East Coast cities, and has yet to reach its peak. The third wave is just taking off among heterosexual men and women who have had sexual contact with one or more of the high-risk groups. The question now is how far -- and how fast -- it will travel into the rest of the population...
...John D. Rockefeller IV '61 (D-W. Va.) yesterday outlined a comprehensive strategy for improving the economic, social and educational opportunities of America's children in a panel discussion at the Kennedy School of Government...
...crime spree that almost passed for a plot. But My Own Private Idaho is a different story. Or rather nonstory, in which a pair of homosexual hustlers (River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves) search inconclusively for the meaning of their lives. What plot it has is borrowed, improbably, from Henry IV, and whenever anyone manages to speak an entire paragraph, it is usually a Shakespearean paraphrase. But this is a desperate imposition on an essentially inert film. There's more drama, and comedy, in the reviews of critics who committed themselves to Van Sant's anti-Establishment genius after Cowboy...