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There were intriguing new theories and more grim statistics, puzzling observations and enlightening discoveries. "Never before in the history of medicine has so much been learned about an entirely new disease in so short a time," pronounced Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler last week at the opening session of the most comprehensive conference yet held on the fearful subject of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The AIDS conference, jointly sponsored in Atlanta by the World Health Organization and HHS, drew more than 2,000 researchers, health officials, gay activists and others from points as distant as Zaďre. As they...
...Stern wants the fight to set off a national debate about what he calls the "social contract" between fans and players, which seems to have been voided. "Over the years, at all sporting events, there's developed a combination of things," says Stern. "First, the professional heckler, who feels empowered to spend the entire game directing his attention to disturbing the other team at any decibel level, at any vocabulary. Then, an ongoing permissiveness that runs the gamut from college kids who don't wear shirts and paint their faces and think that liberates them to say anything...
...during the election season suggested that I was such a Kerry partisan that I "grappled with a heckling Dean supporter at a Kerry rally in New Hampshire" [Nov. 15]. This was no doubt in reference to a January incident in which I helped two Dean security people escort a heckler from a Dean event. The heckler had been screaming and throwing elbows for quite some time when I stepped in to help. The manager of the Palace Theater said I was a hero for preventing the situation from getting out of control, and two weeks later I was honored...
...during the election season suggested that I was such a Kerry partisan that I "grappled with a heckling Dean supporter at a Kerry rally in New Hampshire" [Nov. 15]. This was no doubt in reference to a January incident in which I helped two Dean security people escort a heckler from a Dean event. The heckler had been screaming and throwing elbows for quite some time when I stepped in to help. The manager of the Palace Theater said I was a hero for preventing the situation from getting out of control, and two weeks later I was honored...
...away after she began shouting during the president’s speech. A second protester was escorted out of the building minutes later, but not before forcing the president to pause his address briefly as delegates chanted “Four more years” to drown out the heckler...