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WHEN YOU'RE THROWN TOGETHER WITH ANOTHER ACTOR, IS IT POSSIBLE TO KNOW BEFOREHAND IF YOU'LL HAVE CHEMISTRY...
...There is less familiarity. A lot less." Sometimes the changes are far from subtle, according to Mark Senak, a lawyer at the Gay Men's Health Crisis, a volunteer organization that helps AIDS patients in New York. "They'll come out of the hospital, and their roommate has thrown them out--I mean literally," he says. "Their clothes will be on the street." Rejection of this sort is not unique to gay men. Senak cites the case of a heterosexual woman with AIDS whose husband and family refused to take her back home from the hospital...
Then a glint of light catches the eye: a javelin, thrown by one of the women in the heptathlon competition. It arcs down into the sod: 120 ft. and change. The distance is not impressive. "Wait for Jackie," someone says. Jackie Joyner, silver medalist at the Los Angeles Olympics last summer, has won the first five heptathlon events here at the U.S. Olympic Committee's National Sports Festival meet. She appears at the beginning of the javelin run-in, holds her spear head-high, level with the ground, and flows into the unmistakable prancing, straight-backed run that must have...
...might have ended in a playground fight. Weise's admiration for Hitler might have faded, or, in the best of scenarios, it might have been addressed by counseling. Too many fights--between husbands and wives, parents and children, siblings--wind up with someone dead rather than with just dishes thrown and doors slammed. So long as weapons are easily available, this horror will continue...
...week when he banned the practice of forcing women to marry against their will. Calling such coercion "un-Islamic" and "a major injustice," the kingdom's Grand Mufti, Sheik Abdul Aziz al-Asheik, proclaimed that fathers and male guardians who try to force their daughters into wedlock should be thrown in jail until the men change their minds. He made it clear that forced marriages originated as a pre-Islamic custom and are antithetical to Shari'a law, which stipulates that a woman must consent to a marriage or else it is not considered valid...