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Despite their physical ordeal, many AIDS sufferers say that the worst aspect of their condition is the sense of isolation and personal rejection. "It's like wearing the scarlet letter," says a 35-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer who was forced out of a job at a top Texas law firm. "When people do find out," he says, "there is a shading, a variation in how they treat me. There is less familiarity. A lot less." Sometimes the changes are far from subtle, according to Mark Senak, a lawyer at the Gay Men's Health Crisis, a volunteer organization that...
...swallowtail coats adorned with gold braid. The essential West Point, however, is never on public display. It is hidden behind stone battlements, in bleak inner courtyards of black asphalt. In these forbidding surroundings, the rite of passage into the Long Gray Line begins every July with a seven-week ordeal that is officially labeled Cadet Basic Training but is better known as Beast Barracks. Plebes are weaned from teen culture (TVs are banned from the rooms) and taught to be "warriors." "Not savages, but gentlemen," explains Cadet Captain Chris Borgerding. Plebes are constantly "corrected" by upperclassmen, but hazing is forbidden...
During his Times interview, King Hussein took pains to compliment Peres as a "man of vision," even while keeping a wary distance from the Israeli peace offer. Both Hussein and Egypt's Mubarak were sorely tried by the P.L.O. during the Achille Lauro ordeal. Hussein was further irked at the cancellation of an Oct. 14 meeting in London between British Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe and two P.L.O. representatives; the session was called off after one of the P.L.O. members refused to endorse the right of Israel to exist. But Hussein last week carefully insisted that "at the right time under...
...pitch and threw herself into the arms of her weeping mother. A moment later, Inés Guadalupe Duarte Durán was swept into the embrace of her tear-choked father, President José Napoleón Duarte, for whom the nation's civil war had lately become an agonizing personal ordeal...
...envelopes full of cash. In their small voices, the children's excruciating account of their nightmare was shown in videotaped testimonies in the courtroom last week. Sucking her thumb at times, Marine V. described playing sexual games of "doctor" with visiting men. The children's details of their long ordeal are almost unbearable to hear. But equally disquieting are the apparent failures of the French social system: police failed to protect the children from nearly three years of abuse, and did not act when social workers warned of possible pedophilia. And France's prisons could not apparently rehabilitate those accused...