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Once a deaf person contracts AIDS, its horrors are magnified. John Canady, the scion of a multigeneration deaf family in California, signed so exquisitely that he served as a model for an ASL textbook. His eloquence meant ) less than nothing when he ended up in a San Diego hospital with an AIDS- related crisis. Not only did his attendants fail to provide an interpreter, they also tied his hands to a gurney. Trapped for hours in the classic nightmare of I-want-to-scream-but-some one-has-his-hand-over-my-mouth, Canady died shortly after friends found...
...unofficial rulebook of Japanese politics. Two Prime Ministers before him, Kiichi Miyazawa and Toshiki Kaifu, lost the job trying to accomplish that feat, and the Diet was full of wily politicians determined that Hosokawa would fare no better. But the doubters underestimated the extent to which the scion of an aristocratic landowning family was a politician of a new stripe. Nor did the skeptics anticipate that Hosokawa's unprecedented popularity would give him the authority he needed to accomplish the heretofore unthinkable...
...returned to the bosoms of her former associates sans Count and hoping to divorce, which casts her as a fallen woman in the eyes of this morally puritanical--though decadent--crowd. Newland Archer (played by a stalwart yet at times wistful Daniel Day-Lewis), the intellectually curious scion of a respected family, is one of the few willing to give her the benefit of the doubt...
This esprit de cool comes from the host: Harvard Lampoon ex-president, writer-producer for television's best show (The Simpsons), scion of a tony Boston family (he could do my-father-the-doctor, my-mother-the-lawyer jokes, but won't). And, now, the star of Late Night after David Letterman. "I'd be an arrogant fool if I didn't get nervous," O'Brien says. "What calms me, I guess, is that there are a million things I can't do but I have a core belief in myself that this is something...
...popular psychologies" aren't responsive to harsh economic conditions unless elites point them out. Clinton, he says, "developed a strong message about 1980s favoritism to the top one percent and unfairness to the middle class" and so "quickly became the Democratic front-runner." According to Phillips, Bush, as the "scion of a prominent investment banking family," didn't have Reagan's populist credential to counter Clinton's message, and consequently failed to win reelection...