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INFECTION PROTECTION There's help for hospital workers exposed to HIV from, say, a needle prick. Taking anti-AIDS drugs soon afterward can cut the odds of becoming infected...
...their work together on the '72 McGovern race in Texas. But friendship will take you only so far in politics. With handicappers rating the popular G.O.P. Governor George W. Bush as the man Gore may face in 2000, the White House camp figures it couldn't hurt to prick him in his 1998 gubernatorial re-election race or to road-test campaign tactics that Gore might want to use two years later...
...with only a lukewarm response. Western governments, wary of repeating the high-profile failure of the intervention in Somalia, are reluctant to commit foreign troops to a country with minimal strategic or commercial interests--and so far with few TV scenes of horror broadcast to prick the world's conscience. Western officials note, moreover, that the Burundian army and members of the coalition government oppose the idea. Even prominent Hutu moderates, including the country's President, Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, concede that foreign troops "will not solve our problems." Talking to Time from his mansion in Bujumbura last week, he asked, "What...
...mordantly juvenile ditty circulating in Nelson Rockefeller's campaign headquarters in 1968 insulted every hopeful in sight: "Scranton's a sissy,/ Nixon's a prick./ Romney's a moron,/ Goldwater's sick./ Nelson's your best man,/ Able and quick./ But who is our candidate?/ Upright Dick!" After Nixon's Inauguration, even the Washington Post's cartoonist Herblock gave him a shave (erasing the famously sinister Milhousian stubble shadow). Whatever else Nixon may have become in the years before his forced retirement, he was deemed for an instant to be presidential. Every President, including Bill Clinton, has a hard fight...
Inevitably, hard core fans will miss the nasty edge of the comic book version, and those wary of Hollywood commercialization will prick up their ears for the faintest whisper of `sell-out,' but obscure British references and gleeful violence don't always merit a $25 million budget. At least not obscure British references. Even those hard-core comic geeks who were down with Tank Girl before she became so freaking cool, ought to get a kick out of this sneak peek into their adorable idol's history. The movie's plot can be appreciated as a prologue, how Tank Girl...