Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tomlin is an adept dear, and has a fine time hexing Moramax's corporate wimps with her voodoo snake whammy. Still, you may vainly search for signs of the quicksilver wit and emotional risk she radiates onstage. Someday Hollywood will harness her genius, in some movie with a different co-star. After all, who looks at anyone else when Bette Midler is around? It is a privilege merely to watch her walk her walks: the not-quite-ladylike mince, the executive sweep, the strumpet's strut. She lopes easily from City Sadie, the bitch goddess who spits out orders...
Watkins homed in on another Administration bugaboo: guaranteed confidentiality. Since the AIDS crisis began, programs to determine the focus and spread of the disease have been stymied because people at high risk have feared being stigmatized by showing up for tests. "An effective guarantee of confidentiality is the major bulwark against that fear," the report asserts. However, it also establishes clear exceptions to the rule: namely, when there is a need to protect those "who may unknowingly be in immediate danger of being exposed" to the AIDS virus. Among them are victims of sexual assaults, health-care workers...
...began working with the Urban League in Boston in their demand that Blacks be hired on construction sites at a proportionate rate to whites," he says. "We were a liaison between the Black construction workers and the companies. A lot of students involved were unwilling to risk suspension for the cause when it got to that point...
...plan that Arias calls a "risk for peace" has captured the world's imagination. Largely for that effort, Arias was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on October 13, 1987, becoming the first Central American ever to receive the award. In the process, Arias, who will deliver today's Commencement address, has become something of a hero to the people of his country and his region...
...think a lot of people are willing to be asked to withdraw from Harvard for a year," she says, adding that most undergraduate activists here would never seriously risk arrest. "I don't think that's true of activists around the United States...