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...prime-time package of jokes, comedy routines and songs. There is a hand-holding rendition of We Are the World, and another. And then, as darkness falls over the mountains, 1,000 girls troop inside a small room and start chanting and swaying in unison as U.S.A. Singer-Songwriter Peter Dergee delivers a set just for them. And when, toward the end, Dergee lowers his voice for a love song, there are enough hugs to shame a group-therapy session, and eyes begin to glisten...
...Other viruses have made this leap--notably jungle yellow fever virus--and, he notes, the greens often live in close association with people and frequently bite them. How the disease might have traveled from Africa to the U.S. and Haiti is anybody's guess. One "intriguing" clue, says Dr. Peter Piot of the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, is that several thousand Haitians lived in Kinshasa, Zaïre, from the early 1960s to the mid-'70s, and most of them, he says, have since moved to North America and Europe. As another researcher put it, the virus "didn...
...Sometimes, if it issues forth from a politician or religious zealot with ambitions, it becomes sinister. The U.S. has a fairly rich tradition of ranters, from Thomas Paine to Joseph McCarthy to Spiro Agnew (whose ranting was actually a satire on the form) to Louis Farrakhan. A citizen named Peter Muggins caught the essense of the rant in an intense if repetitious letter to Abraham Lincoln: "God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell...
...their thinking in the face of overseas criticism, suggests that some sort of change may really be coming to South Africa at last. What cannot yet be divined is precisely what sort of change is on the way, or at what pace . --By William E. Smith. Reported by Peter Hawthorne and Bruce W. Nelan/Johannesburg
Winans was found guilty of leaking advance information from his influential "Heard on the Street" column during 1983 and 1984 to two Kidder, Peabody stockbrokers, Peter Brant and Kenneth Felis. They used the knowledge to make trades that earned them $675,000. Of that amount, Winans and his roommate David Carpenter, 36, received...