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...that, like so many other nations, still denies HIV's impact. Yet even with its pages filled with so much injustice and pain, the book also contains its fair share of triumphant moments. An HIV-positive doctor who fought for - and won - his constitutional right to marry a "negative" woman; a group of HIV-positive children who found a home when no one else would take them, a sex worker who braves police corruption and abuse to spread condoms to her colleagues. As one women explained: "I know I am HIV positive, but it is only a condition...
Highlight Reel: 1. Sunil Gangopadhyay on the country's thriving sex industry: "Sex workers are creatures of the dark. They exist in every society but are kept invisible. They are to be used, but not talked about." In ancient India, "if a woman was beautiful and talented; if she could sing, dance or converse intelligently, why should she waste her skills on one man alone? Why shouldn't a number of men enjoy her company? That is why a prostitute was called barnari or barangana - meaning public woman - and the source of her earnings was her skill in some performing...
...played by the 6 ft. 5 in. (2m) James Cromwell, Poppy Bush looms over W. (and W.) as a commanding, commandeering figure. According to the film, he's the master manipulator who sprang Dubya from jail after a rowdy Yale prank, "took care of" a woman his son didn't want to marry and "pulled strings" to get the boy into Harvard Business School. He hates the damage W. has done to the family name: "Partying, chasing tail, driving drunk. What do you think you are - a Kennedy...
...what human beings are and what makes them wonderful and odd.When I started this book I wanted to write a screwball comedy based on the classic love triangle. At the beginning I knew only a few things—the triangle would consist of a man, a woman, and a ghost. But as is usually the case with things I write, the story chose the direction it wanted to go in and I just followed. I’ve always said writing for me is like walking a very frisky St. Bernard or Irish Wolfhound puppy: You open the door...
...before this week’s voter registration deadline in Massachusetts. The students registered hundreds of voters over the weekend. “I think it’s...historic that people may have the opportunity to have an elected official that looks like them whether that means a woman as vice president or a person of color as president,” Executive Director of MassVOTE Avi Green said. “I think that’s inspiring to a lot of people.” Green trained IOP members in proper voter registration etiquette and eligibility before...