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...more than a decade now, but despite huge investments of research money and intellectual capital, medical science still has no effective weapon against the disease--and no definite idea of what such a weapon would even look like. Under these demoralizing conditions, any scrap of progress, no matter how tenuous, triggers an enormous surge of hope. It happened again last week with a report in the New England Journal of Medicine: doctors at UCLA announced that a five-year-old boy, infected with HIV at birth, has been symptom-free ever since. More important, over the past four years...
...play where crows wax philosophical on a swing (garbed in beautiful masks by Lara Ho) and there's no worse fate than "hauling grease from the grease pits," we are given up to the fantastical premise that while this world's continuity is tenuous at best, word and image are nevertheless inexorably linked. The ways in which Levine and his crew convey and actualize metaphor on stage are striking and, perhaps most importantly, watchable in the extreme...
...design, by Ashley Martin-Davis, effectively denotes the school as the focal point of the town's struggle with the forces of change. Chris Parry's lighting enhances the set with its subtle colors, evoking the tenuous purity of the town...
Violations against the tenuous cease-fire negotiated by ex-President Jimmy Carter are serious enough to justify a special trip by Lt. Gen. Sir Michael Rose -- the top U.N. commander in the area -- to northwest Bosnia. Rose announced that he would fly to the Bihac region -- the site of the most serious cease-fire violations -- tomorrow in an effort to save the truce. Rose's mission: Rein in the Croatian Serbs, who haven't signed on to Carter's truce. Under the agreement, which took effect Saturday, the government and the Bosnian Serbs agreed to a one-week cease-fire...
...clear the way for new elections, staking his future on the belief that voters will sweep him back into office and silence his critics. "The government will resign tomorrow and tomorrow begins a long election campaign," Tatarella told state television, referring to Wednesday's parliamentary session. Berlusconi led his tenuous, three-coalition Forza Italy, or Let's Go, Italy, party to victory in March, largely on promises to clean up widespread government corruption. But the combination of anti-graft prosecutors focusing on bribery allegations involving Berlusconi companies and constant bickering within his coalition have brought the new government...