Word: peter
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...sitcom in the following season--prime time has seen an influx of popular, prominent and well-rounded gay characters without Ellen-esque audience or advertiser cavils. Indeed, there's so much cachet in being gay that even straight characters are trying it. On Fox's Action, scheming movie producer Peter Dragon received oral sex from a star to whom he passed himself off as gay, and in what promises to be a head-turning second episode of Fox's Ally McBeal on Nov. 1, Ally engages in steamy lip-wrestling with another woman...
...white patients underwent the procedure, compared with 64% of blacks. The difference was sufficiently large to reduce the overall survival rate for black patients to 26% after five years, compared with 34% for whites. It's a gap that concerns the doctors. "People are dying needlessly," says Dr. Peter Bach of Memorial Sloan-Kettering, who led the study. He suspects "some combination of the procedure not being offered or pushed by doctors, and patients not accepting...
...there's more to View than switchblades and red sauce. Bolcom has refracted Miller's '50s angst through the prism of an unlikely source: Benjamin Britten's great opera Peter Grimes, in which a deeply alienated antihero confronts a band of small-minded English villagers who demand his conformity or his life. Incapable of sleeping with his wife Beatrice (soprano Catherine Malfitano) and tortured by his dark longing for his niece, Eddie finds himself similarly ostracized by his fellow immigrants--a situation that allows Bolcom to deploy his chorus to galvanizing effect. View is among the first American operas...
Math teacher Eric Dunn has been wearing a Webster football jersey all day, No. 13, a walking ad for his student Karl Odenwald. Peter and Sally, her hair in pigtails, arrive together and sit in the very front. Mr. Winingham strolls by with his 11/2-year-old, who looks like an escapee from a Caravaggio painting. Sally starts playing with the child, getting in touch with her inner mom. Mr. Yates is with his two children and wife, Webster class of '85, and his in-laws, who were homecoming king and queen back...
...confirm that observation, one of a handful of parents attending the meeting, Peter Bakker, who has four daughters in the system, rises to urge the board not to settle for a tax increase that would only raise teacher's salaries slightly, but instead to "make Webster one of the best...