Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Standing over six feet tall, handsome, muscular, African-American, homosexual and HIV positive, dancer-choreographer Bill T. Jones came to town this past week to teach us a few things. Despite a disarming smile and pleasantly patrician manner, there can be no questioning the intensity and sheer weight of Jones' words and movement...
...Sung regime removed the legal basis for the "special inspection" threatened by the IAEA. The pullout intensified fears that North Korea may now be capable of producing nuclear weapons; South Korea and Japan expressed particular alarm. International trade sanctions might be imposed, but that threat carries limited weight vis-a-vis North Korea, already one of the world's most isolated economies...
...remembers marveling at his high spirits as he set off with a limp -- the trace of his childhood polio -- last Wednesday at about 9:10. He drove to the Pensacola Women's Medical Services in Cordova Square, a suburban shopping center tending toward dress stores, doctors' offices, delis and weight-loss clinics...
...been enough doctors. But he was never too busy for the women. He was a very sweet, caring man, who was very much devoted to seeing that women kept all their rights." When he finished his clinic work in Pensacola, Gunn would drop in on the Slim Concept Weight Control center and give free counseling on diets and fitness. Says Paula Leonard: "All he wanted was to help women. He wanted women to have a choice, and he died...
...veracity, are hurtful on a visceral level. Yet any special treatment necessarily leads to such pain through self-doubt. Minority students are still admitted to Harvard under the misty cloud of affirmative action, which generates the widespread perception of "under qualification." And few will likely escape from this debilitating weight, an inevitable corollary to affirmative action in practice...