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Since acquired immunodeficiency syndrome was first recognized in 1981, it has struck 17,000 Americans, killing nearly half of them. But even more rampant than the deadly disease itself is a secondary epidemic: fear. AIDS patients around the country have become society's new untouchables. Workers have been fired; babies abandoned; children, like Ryan White of Kokomo, Ind., banned from school. The fears have persisted despite assurances from doctors that AIDS has been known to spread almost exclusively through sexual contact and exposure to infected blood. A poll taken last summer showed that nearly half of Americans thought they could...
Although speculation about the Marcoses' holdings abroad has been rampant for years, proof has remained elusive. Last June the San Jose Mercury News reported that in March 1984 a New York investor brought a lawsuit that linked Mrs. Marcos to an estate on Long Island. The report also documented sizable real estate purchases in California by friends of the Marcos family, lending weight to charges by opposition politicians that as much as $10 billion has fled the debt-ridden Philippines in recent years. Since then the U.S. has launched several investigations of allegations that the Marcos regime may have misappropriated...
...sense of culture they try to construct withers in the red glare of National Socialism. After 1933 their story becomes a lugubrious tale of giants in exile (Oskar Kokoschka, Kurt Schwitters, Max Beckmann), of ruined hope, lopped lives and rampant state philistinism. By 1945 there is no life left in the expressionist impulse, at least in Germany; it can only be reborn in America as abstraction, and then re-exported to exhausted Europe. By 1955 figurative expressionism is a dodo--shot by Hitler, eaten by art history, its bones a museum specimen. Thus spake, until lately, the scenario...
...most of its history, the Harvard Law School represented an ideal of legal traditions based on intellect and scholarship. In the past few decades the rampant greediness of its professors has become manifest. The Harvard Law School has been, for quite a while, a place from which forays into television, etc., have been launched by its publicity-crazed faculty...
Some students say they feel that such conservatism prevented imagination and creativity from running rampant in girls' rooms. "Guys tend to get more creative with their rooms," says Kimberly...