Word: simonizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seniors: David Anderson, Todd Dawson, Steve Kelts, Pete McConnon, Mark Nowakowski, Esan Simon, Matthew Wachowicz
...medics assumed the cause to be pneumonia. After they found out it was AIDS, some of them made tasteless jokes about the man's sexuality and others suggested they bury his respirator. It was not that they were ill-intentioned, as Abraham Verghese points out in My Own Country (Simon & Schuster; 347 pages; $23); it was simply that AIDS, to say nothing of homosexuality, was something that happened somewhere else. For a quiet Bible Belt town of dance halls and churches (72 of them), the disease was an unwanted foreigner...
...equipment to carry out such a perilous mission successfully. Ghana, Ethiopia, Senegal and Zimbabwe have promised troops, and the U.N. hopes Egypt and Nigeria will also contribute. That only intensifies suspicion that the white West's refusal to come to the aid of black Africa is racist. Wrote columnist Simon Hoggart in the British daily Guardian: "Nobody you know has ever been on holiday to Rwanda. And Rwandans don't look like us. They have even less clout than Bosnian Muslims...
...change the Congressman's mind, but we thought if we could just get all the information on these guns to him, we might be able to do it," says Feinstein press secretary Bill Chandler. Still, Feinstein did not feel comfortable enough to cold call Hyde. Illinois Senator Paul Simon was enlisted as intermediary...
...little mysterious, full of arresting incident, grippingly played. The bad news is that there is so little audience for serious work that its survival is, in the producer's words, "week to week." Only two new plays have had much of a run on Broadway this season, Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor and the second half of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, and their attendance has been declining...