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Almost everybody who had an interest in the situation was represented there that pleasant summer Tuesday in Washington, including gay-community leaders, federal bureaucrats and the investigative team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that had taken a lead role in tracking the situation. What was it? A disease that just 13 months earlier had blipped on the CDC's radar screen was rapidly turning epidemic, particularly among gay men and drug addicts. Yet no one agreed on what to call it. Because the disease critically weakened the immune system and was often accompanied by a rare...
...FOOFs (Friends of Old Films) like Yours Truly, the 75th anniversary class portrait of dozens of Oscar-winning actors was pleasant, poignant, sometimes prurient. Since the excuse for these reunions is to see how the waxworks look decades after their eminence (Kirk Douglas: chiseled; Jennifer Jones: scary; Ernest Borgnine: exactly the same as 50 years ago, when he was the thug in "From Here to Eternity"), I wondered why the producers bothered to include recent winners. Where were Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Lisa "She's Everywhere Else" Minnelli? And could Joan Fontaine call a truce with her sister Olivia...
Hanging out in the laundry room would sound about as pleasant as doing yoga in Times Square were it not for the dramatic upgrade in laundry machines, which operate not only more quietly but also more efficiently. Roused by the demand for German company Miele's $1,500-plus front-loading machines, American manufacturers like Maytag, Sears and Whirlpool are rushing to offer better-priced front loaders, which save space, conserve water and energy and hum instead of roar. Sales of front-loading machines have nearly doubled, from 6% of the U.S. market in 2000 to 11% in 2002, according...
...most pleasant surprise, however, came in the 197-pound class. PJ Jones had been alternating with sophomore Eddie Jones (no relation) for the 184-pound spot. This week, it was PJ who moved up a weight class to 197 pounds. Nonetheless, he performed exceptionally well, going in unseeded and finishing fifth, as well as avenging a couple of defeats from earlier this season...
Cohen said Rawls’pleasant manner around those who knew him seemed rooted in his belief that moral and political philosophy should have practical value in everyday life...