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...last fall. So Gore's announcement appealed to domestic voters such as the gay-rights groups that attacked him last summer for allegedly supporting U.S. pharmaceutical companies trying to block the manufacture of generic AIDS drugs in South Africa. "He is showing presidential-quality leadership," said Eric Sawyer, a founder of ACT UP New York. "Compared to the other candidates, he is doing all the right things." But some Africans said they were unimpressed by the pledge of only $100 million more to deal with a crisis that experts predict could cost $2.3 billion...
...intriguing one. Her Hollywood roots ran deep; he was an entertainment mogul. Her media domination centered on the world of aerobics, his on politics. She was an outspoken liberal activist; he was merely outspoken. So it may not have shocked many last week when actress JANE FONDA and CNN founder TED TURNER announced their separation after eight years of marriage. Though the two were often seen swooning over each other, there were reports of divergent views on spousehood. In 1998 Turner revealed that the two were seeing a marriage counselor, which perhaps led to his suggestion last year that...
Although the founder of Microsoft undoubtedly spends most of his time "innovating" and exercising his monopoly power in the software industry, the famed Harvard dropout is also responsible for offering $400 to every man, woman and child in California...
...take serious account of Modern American art (nine years before the Whitney Museum of American Art was founded). In the past, it has mounted a lot of distinguished shows by living artists. But in these closing days of the Modernist century, it has chosen to commemorate itself and its founder. Through Jan. 23, the whole winding building is filled with "Renoir to Rothko: The Eye of Duncan Phillips," the chronological story of its creation, and it's one of the great American cultural narratives...
DIED. BILL BOWERMAN, 88, track coach and Nike co-founder, who sparked the '70s jogging boom; in Fossil, Ore. In 24 years at the University of Oregon, Bowerman coached Steve Prefontaine and the 1972 Olympic team, and used his wife's waffle iron to develop Nike's revolutionary running sole...