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...pediatric trials so far, the news is promising. Many children are rebounding. But conducting those tests is complicated, since most protease inhibitors are available only as capsules, not in liquid form, which is more suitable for kids. At St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, researchers open the capsules and mix the bitter medicine with food. "This is not the best way to do it," says Dr. Walter Hughes, who heads the AIDS clinical-trial unit. "But if you have a child who is going to die in six months, you take those chances...
...Commerce Department papers clearly indicate that many corporate contributors expected their money to earn them special consideration when seats were being handed out on the Secretary's plane. In a letter addressed to Deputy Assistant Commerce Secretary Jude Kearney, C. Payne Lucas, a development-organization executive, suggests that he should be added to a mission headed for South Africa in 1993 because he contributed $2,000 to the election campaigns of both Clinton and South African President Nelson Mandela. In another, Philip Verveer, a politically savvy Washington attorney, recommends a place on a 1994 mission to India for William Ginsberg...
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...Jude, a careful, finally powerful film adapted by Hossein Amini and directed by Michael Winterbottom, places its hero and heroine in the context of a society that rejects their mild bohemianism. Jude (Christopher Eccleston) studies for the sheer pleasure of the text; Sue (Kate Winslet) flaunts her agnosticism and struts in bars, turning a cigarette into a smokestack (a gesture used so well in Francois Truffaut's Jules and Jim, the classic film about the perils of loving a liberated woman). They are also the modern homeless: their evictions from "decent" homes set up an atrocity that still shocks...
...young stars give the film its grim rapture. Eccleston's Jude is not crippled but strengthened by the burden of carrying a love for someone reluctant to accept it. When he's with Sue, his gaze speaks love so loudly she might have to cover her ears. Winslet is worthy of his and the camera's scrupulous adoration. Her teasing sneer of a smile makes her a very contemporary presence. So she's perfect for Sue, a modernist ahead of her time. Take Gwyneth Paltrow's elegance, mix in Drew Barrymore's naughty wiles, and you have a hint...