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...with the good news comes the bad. The new drugs, it turns out, don't work for everyone. "At least 15% of patients don't respond," says Dr. Howard Grossman, whose New York City practice is largely devoted to treating AIDS. "That's the saddest thing. They watch other people get better. They have high hopes, and then nothing happens...
...saddest thing is that Bob Dole, with 45 years of political experience, has been reduced to making an attack that does little more than allow the party loyalists to bask in the warmth of nostalgia for the days when they had Walter Mondale to run against. Dole has an economic plan that he does not believe in (as evidenced by the fact that he could bring himself to mention a 15 percent tax cut only when directly asked about it by the moderator) and one that the American people are not willing to buy into at a time of relative...
Oscar winner ANNA PAQUIN likes acting, but she has a tiny complaint. "Not all roles for children have definite personalities," she says. "They're just there. I've been very lucky." Having played two of the saddest girls in moviedom--The Piano's Flora and the young Jane Eyre--Paquin, 14, keeps the melancholy theme going in her next film, Fly Away Home. She plays Amy, who moves in with her estranged inventor father after her mother dies in a car crash. She has to teach wild geese she finds to fly, or a wildlife officer will clip their wings...
...Quite frankly, they gave me everything I could have hoped for," said Berry. "It is a $600 million operation, with great career growth. But it was the saddest day of my life to say 'yes,' when for anyone else, it would have been the happiest...
...whose name lives on in the law her death inspired, is a case in point--have led us to gloss over complexities and grasp at the closest semblance of security, even if in the process we destroy the sacred values of our society and brand people forever. Perhaps the saddest testament to our feeling of disintegration is that we are willing to give up on the possibilities of personal change to secure even a modicum of societal stability...