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...there is the kind of tension that results from great suffering. These are the portraits of an AIDS survivor, sketched and painted by Marberger's friends since it was confirmed , that he had the disease. They are a tribute to a man who will not quit. When Marberger learned in 1985 that he had Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare form of skin cancer that is sometimes associated with AIDS, his reaction was to fight the assault by the AIDS virus no matter what the cost in money or suffering. The co-owner of a successful Manhattan art gallery, he sold...
Outgoing Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns said Meese's legal troubles had infected the Justice Department with a "malaise." That had worsened the day before, when three more of Burns' aides quit, bringing to five the number of high-ranking Justice officials who have left since Burns and William Weld announced their resignations March 29. Weld, who had headed the criminal division, told Reagan what he had earlier told Meese: that he would indict the Attorney General if he were running the investigation. Meese's friend E. Robert Wallach had profited from his relationship with the Attorney General, Weld said...
...high point of Claudia's career is her time as a war correspondent covering the desert campaign against Rommel. She goes at her assignment with gusto, typing in the jeep, pausing to shake the sand out of her typewriter. No wonder a weary colleague asks her to quit showing off. But soon she meets the love of her life, a tank commander named Tom Southern. The savvy reader of war fiction knows at once that earnest Tom will be dead within 50 pages, but Claudia is launched on a splendidly grand passion. And when finally the disastrous word comes from...
...forced to quit after admitting he gave reporters a video tape showing Biden quoting liberally without attribution from a British politician's speech. Those reports led to a string of disclosures which forced Biden from the presidential race...
...knowledgeable source said senior Merrill Lynch management wanted Speakes to quit because the disclosures raised serious questions about his credibility and, by extension, that of the company...