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...Jerry, a suburban Atlanta therapist in his late 20s, knew he was running major risks when he fell in love half a dozen years ago with a man some years older. From the first date, they practiced safe sex. But there is no prophylactic protection against grief. When the relationship was less than a year old, his lover was found to have AIDS. Jerry says he never considered leaving during five harrowing years. But he adds tearfully that he could not imagine involving himself with an HIV-positive man again...
...former role as team baby and mascot has been taken over by this year's huggable 16-year-old, Nadia Anita Nall, a high school junior from suburban Baltimore. Nall's first name was bestowed in honor of Nadia Comaneci, who won Olympic gold as a gymnast in 1976 while Nall's father watched TV awaiting her birth. But the name was dropped from family usage in favor of Anita. So too, when she was seven, was her seemingly foreordained pursuit of gymnastics. She focused on swimming, set age-group records by 12 and notched an adult American record...
Which leaves Perot. Suburban Chicago politicians fear that the drug gangs will simply move to what Lane calls "normal" neighborhoods if the projects are swept "clean." "But that would be great," he insists. "Nationally, we'll never get a handle on violent crime until 'normal' folks feel the fear that's felt in the ghetto. Only then will they scream for the kind of law enforcement, including things like house-by-house searches, that gives content to all the law-and-order rhetoric. Ross may have gone too far, but he's on the right track." Which means Perot might...
...tear down the white system? Well, not all that unusual. The not-so- little secret of the recording industry is that hip-hop music is a source of enormous profits. For all the claims that revolutionary rap speaks for oppressed inner-city youth, its main consumers are affluent white suburban teenagers seeking to cloak their adolescent rebellion in a veneer of ghetto toughness. Some formerly impecunious ghetto youths have turned into millionaires by becoming rap artists. Not for nothing does Ice-T boast on his recent release Original Gangster that "William Morris is my agency. I'll never go broke...
...Cabot Science Library is also oriented toward undergraduates, boasting long hours and a convenient location in the Science Center. Rounding out the selection of undergraduate libraries is Hilles, with a collection strong in the social sciences and a suburban location at Radcliffe Quad...