Word: safely
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Jeffrey (John Michael Higgins) is such a fellow. This pleasant young actor- waiter grew up thanking God for the joy of sex; now he curses God because "life is suddenly radioactive." So he decides that the only safe sex is celibacy. He sublimates at the gym: "endorphins, not hormones." He rejects the amiable advances of Steve (Tom Hewitt), who is HIV positive. And gradually he retreats from the gay life -- not just the sex, but the camaraderie in times of frivolity and mourning. He doesn't want to attend -- and diss -- one more AIDS memorial at which the guest stars...
...considers, with a wisdom born of irreverence, a genteel old dilemma. Until the pill, a threat of pregnancy ; loomed over any nice young man who considered having sex with someone he loved. Now especially for gay men, the threat is death. "Sex wasn't meant to be 'safe,' " Jeffrey says. "Or negotiated. Or fatal." But there's no sense moping, as a gay priest helpfully points out: "Terminal gloom -- who does that help? Even Brecht wrote musicals...
Stories like these will force the Clinton Administration to put Haiti near the top of its agenda. "The situation is being radicalized," says a young Haitian activist. "If these negotiations are another farce, God save us. The people will take to the streets." The Clinton team is probably safe from a crisis as long as Haitians believe Aristide might really be restored to power. But if he isn't, Haitian eyes will soon turn again toward the U.S. Leaning on a car door to listen to the new President's Inaugural Address on the radio, 10-year-old Reynold looked...
...this country. But they reserve a special contempt for rich people who cheat. Outside Washington, the Baird story came across as an issue of people who play by the rules vs. those who don't and get away with it. Baird's story of the difficulty of finding safe, reliable child care might have won her the sympathy of millions of parents who face the same predicament. But when a couple with a net worth of more than $2 million hire not only an undocumented nanny but a driver as well, when they fail to pay the Social Security...
...possible to have enormous sympathy for the pain of working parents trying to do right by their children, and to have little for Zoe Baird. Millions of working men and women lose sleep every night wondering whether their children are safe during the day. The search for someone they are willing to trust their children with can be endless, the paperwork onerous, the expense breaking. It is an entirely different task from finding a reliable mechanic or a gifted gardener. Simply understanding the laws that apply would take the mind of a law professor -- like the one Baird married...