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Buchanan's adolescent universe was as tribal as the Balkans, divided into parishes. He came from Blessed Sacrament. On weekends, the Buchanan boys and other warriors from Gonzaga would load up someone's father's car with six-packs (the Buchanans wrecked half a dozen of their dad's Oldsmobiles, until his insurance was canceled) and go marauding, like whiteboy Crips and Bloods, but armed with only their fists and a fierce Hibernian truculence. In their cars, they would slowly circle the Hot Shoppe on Connecticut Avenue, hoping for girls, settling for a fight...
...work in high-stress, high-volume, high-cost areas, many veterans migrated to jobs in low-stress, low-cost areas. Now, as job openings go unfilled for months at a time at major hubs like New York, Chicago and San Francisco, each controller not only carries the work load of three but works mandatory six-day weeks as well. Union officials dryly note that even with the $3.7 million a year shelled out for overtime in the New York area, the FAA comes out ahead. Says NATCA's Connor: "You aren't paying medical insurance or retirement costs...
Well, now is the time when the 10,000 men need your help most. The players really appreciate the support, and will need it to combat rowdy Cornell fans who will be flocking in by the bus load. Be sure to pick up your tickets and get ready for a hard-fought battle...
...gauge of the progress of the disease. It can also predict survival. In a study of 181 HIV-positive patients, 65% of the subjects who began the study with 34,500 or more virus particles per milliliter were dead within five years. By contrast, all the subjects whose viral load was fewer than 5,000 particles survived. The hope is that when virus-testing kits become widely available, doctors will be able to judge accurately which patients are doing O.K. and which need aggressive therapy...
Give Dreyfuss points for schlepping this load. Making effective use of his trademark dimple, braying giggle and comic exasperation with a world of slow learners, he takes teacher Glenn Holland through three decades of Americana, from Vietnam to 1995. Holland has a wife (Glenne Headly), a deaf son and, it turns out, a vocation for helping the young understand themselves through music. He becomes their drill sergeant, father confessor, patron saint. As the years pass, his students follow their stars while he, a frustrated composer, pours his ambition into them. It's the ambitious teacher's tragedy: your kids move...