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...Africans, the Nobel Prize winning organization Doctors Without Borders requested that Yale act in conjunction with BMS to drop its patent protection in the country. But Yale wouldn’t budge; at least not until a group of Yale students began to mobilize around the issue, mounting a stubborn media campaign to shame the university and BMS. Eventually the students prevailed, and together Yale and BMS ceased enforcement of the South African d4T patents. As a result, the price of d4T in South Africa fell to one-thirty-fourth of its previous level. That?...
...very unfamiliarity of the language that stops the mind," he says. He is unapologetic about his American adaptations of the music. "As my path got deeper, the melodies came out in a more natural way for my incarnation," he says. "And I am arrogant and dull and stubborn and lazy enough to just let that happen." What could be more American than that? --With reporting by Sally Duros/Chicago and Stacie Stukin/Los Angeles
...current crisis the U.S. now faces in Iraq. Belatedly, the president has recognized the failure of his unilateral approach and acknowledged the need for assistance from an institution he had written off as “irrelevant.” Now it is time for Bush to abandon his stubborn insistence on calling the shots and do what is right for the Iraqi people and what is necessary for global security...
...inert - or, as Schwartz himself recognizes, resort to denial. And even a gift-wrapped final scenario can leave questions unanswered. Inevitable Surprises warns that we're "facing the inevitability of another global plague," without giving an insight into its timing, source or nature. Still, Schwartz's writing carries a stubborn credibility, even as he brushes with science fiction, predicting, for example, physical teleporting by 2050. Perhaps our cynical era craves being told metanarratives, even while we can see the cracks. Was it easier at Delphi? Perhaps. Once we get that teleporter working, maybe we can go back and see what...
Howard recognizes Pollard as a kindred spirit for his stubborn steed and takes him in, becoming a kind of surrogate father to the angry, abandoned Red. "You kind of see his safe, secure, loving world get crushed, and you see his boyishness just drain out of him," Maguire explains. "He toughens up and withdraws and keeps himself guarded. And then you see that melt away again as he becomes part of this family." Watching Red slowly learn to trust those around him, you realize that Maguire has taken his standard boy-becomes-man routine and subverted it. He plays...