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Armed with degrees from Harvard College, the London School of Economics, and Yale Law School, Rubin had worked briefly as an attorney at the New York law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton before heading to Wall Street...
...Fest to lure movie buffs to the Massachusetts resort island where the shark tale was filmed. The three-day event in early June will mark the 30th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's first blockbuster with an outdoor screening and appearances by Jaws novelist Peter Benchley and co-screenwriter Carl Gottlieb, along with displays of movie props and behind-the-scenes photographs. (Universal Studios' commemorative DVD set won't be available until later that month.) The reunion won't be complete, as actors Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss have not yet agreed to come and the director has said...
Since the first cases were identified in the U.S. more than four years ago, AIDS has baffled the experts. UCLA's Gottlieb was among the first physicians in the country to notice that something strange was going on in the winter of 1981. In the space of just three months, he treated four patients with an unusual lung infection called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. PCP is what doctors term an "opportunistic infection," one that strikes people when their immune response is weakened. Typical victims are frail cancer patients and transplant recipients. Gottlieb's four patients departed strikingly from this pattern. Though...
...third case cinched the realization that what I was seeing was something new," Gottlieb recalls. Then, when another case turned up so quickly, he says, "I knew I was witnessing medical history, but I had no comprehension of what this illness would become." He notified federal health authorities of the four cases, and in June 1981, Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control published what was to be the first report on the strange new ailment...
...less than three months after its initial report, the CDC knew of more than 100 cases of what was already being called the gay plague (despite the fact that at least six patients said they were heterosexuals and one was a woman). What they had in common was something Gottlieb observed in the first four cases, "a near wipe-out" of helper T cells, a class of white blood cells that plays a central role in orchestrating the body's immune defenses...