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...truth, the De Klerk government has done precious little to pave the way for meaningful discussions to occur concerning the transfer of power. Modern day South Africa represents a dire portrait of a doomed government desperately clinging to the slimmest hope of staying in office...
Time is a Harvard student's most precious commodity. Between coursework, extracurricular pursuits and the oft-ignored need to sleep at least a little bit each night, taking on anything extra is usually out of the question. But an event that has been unfolding thousands of miles from Cambridge is anything but usual. Atrocities akin to those committed by the Nazis and by the Khmer Rouge occur every day in the civil war pitting Serbs, Croats and Muslims against one another in what was once Yugoslavia...
...MANY HETEROSEXUALS IN THE U.S. ARE practicing safe sex? Precious few, say scientists conducting the first large-scale national sex survey since the original Kinsey study more than 40 years ago. Preliminary results of a telephone canvass of more than 10,000 Americans show that up to 31% of heterosexuals have put themselves at some level of risk for contracting AIDS over the past five years, usually by having multiple sex partners or unprotected sex with someone who is either HIV positive, a blood-transfusion recipient, an intravenous drug user or engaged in some other high-risk behavior...
...that is so, it is because the director sees so much riding on each of his films: the future of cinema, precious testimony from an African-American perspective and, not least, the reputation -- carefully nourished, always vulnerable -- of Spike Lee. "Spike was on the set," recalls an observer who was close to the shooting, "and a guy comes up and tells him, 'I know you! I saw your film -- Boyz N the Hood.' " Lee was miffed, but the crew members laughed seditiously. They surely knew that John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood earned about as much money as Jungle...
...Clinton aide, "we're dead." While key policy decisions hang unresolved, several structural and personnel determinations are of equal importance. Foremost is the exact role of the Economic Security Council, the new White House-based group Clinton is fashioning to force a change in policy development without expending precious political capital on a government-wide reorganization. In public, Clinton's aides see the council as fostering team spirit; in private, they predict that the President-elect will order agency heads to subordinate their independence...