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Critics of the needle giveaway point out that it places city government legally at odds with itself. Says Sterling Johnson, New York City's special prosecutor for narcotics: "To give an addict a needle to shoot drugs is facilitating a crime." New York Archbishop John Cardinal O'Connor, a member of the presidential AIDS commission, blasts the proposal as an "act born in desperation that drags down the standards of all society." Moreover, he strongly questions "whether it will accomplish its purpose," inasmuch as the free needles will probably be shared...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, John Elson, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, John Leo, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
...Katie O'Kiefe...
Although many of the patients who completed Tuesday's move face long-term illnesses and surgery, some of them receive positive news instead. Laura's roommate, Katie O'Kiefe, a 12-year old from Everett, Massachusetts, said she will go home today, reassured by doctors and tests that her leukemia has not come back and she is still in remission...
However, Northeastern responded with three straight goals. Dave Buda made it 4-2 at 4:51 and teammate David O'Brien added two insurance goals to secure the victory...