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...born with many advantages. In his native Jamaica, Ferguson attended the exclusive Calabar boys' high school, an academy that numbers among its alumni Percival Patterson, the island's Prime Minister. The Fergusons lived in a two-story home protected by walls and wrought-iron gates in Kingston's elite suburb of Havendale. His father Von Herman Ferguson was one of the most prominent businessmen in Jamaica. When the elder Ferguson died in a car accident in 1978, his funeral was attended by government and military luminaries. However, that passage -- and the subsequent death of Ferguson's mother from cancer -- shattered...
...actors do their best to maintain some sort of serio-dramatic tone throughout the play. Without a strong script and meaningful character development, players are forced to rely on exaggerated gestures and movement to get their points across. Perhaps overemphasizing Merlyn's innocence, James Patterson, as the title character, remains wideeyed and blank-faced during most of the play. David Travis as Theloc, Merlyn's Obi-Wan Kenobi-like guru, manages to make the best of the show's most preposterous fortune-cookie-like lines. Sometimes, however, Travis, in an effort to maintain some sort of credibility for his character...
...ropes, bounced into the $800 ringside seats, was pummeled by irate spectators and wound up in the hospital in fair condition. Bowe's pregnant wife Judy fainted and had to be taken away, but her husband, for understandable reasons, was not told. Holyfield became the third fighter (after Floyd Patterson and Muhammad Ali) to regain the title from the man he lost it to -- and the first to do so after an unscheduled intermission...
Entertainment included performances by Gordon Michaels of House of Blues, Patric LaCroix and Ensemble, the Anointed Choir and Donnell Patterson of GNE Productions, accompanying the Maynard School Children and St. Paul's AME Choir vocalists...
Conservatives discredit Patterson by pointing out that she is an acknowledged lesbian, with a presumed ideological interest in the subject she studies. They counter with the Family Research Institute study of 1983 and a further survey in Dallas in 1984. Of 5,162 respondents, only 17 reported having had a homosexual parent. Of those, 11 "explicitly attributed their sexual orientation, in part at least, to parental homosexuality." Even the people who conducted this survey concede that the sample was far too small to be reliable. Moreover, if recent research is right in suggesting a genetic basis for homosexuality...