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...report on government approval of the sale of the abortion pill RU 486 [NATION, Oct. 9] included a reference to Dr. Lisa Tucker, who we said works at the Florida clinic where Dr. David Gunn was murdered in 1993. Dr. Tucker does not work at that clinic, and she does not perform abortions. Also, our chart showing the decline in abortions mistakenly included percentage signs. The abortion rate per 1,000 women ages...
...doctors and nurses who, when they arrive for work at a clinic, confront protesters who refer to their children by name. "Many doctors feel if someone else provides it, why bother? Somebody else will do it," observes Dr. Lisa Tucker, who works at the Florida clinic where Dr. David Gunn was murdered seven years ago. Experts liken this debate to the one over physician-assisted suicide: "A lot of doctors believe in it but say they won't do it themselves because they don't need the hassle," says George Annas, a medical ethicist at Boston University School of Public...
DIED. CRAIG STEVENS, 81, actor, born Gail Shikles Jr., who transformed the television private-eye genre as suave detective Peter Gunn in the Blake Edwards' series of the same name; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
Still, Boss Cupid (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 111 pages; $22) offers a splendid introduction for the uninitiated. Almost all of Gunn's virtues are on display here: his playful metrical dexterity, his unflinching celebration both of beauty and of its transience. The subject of love crops up repeatedly in the book's 60 lyrics, but the Boss Cupid of the title is not the chubby winged cherub of popular lore. He is something of a hooligan, "devious master of our bodies," wreaker of joy and havoc: "Love makes the cuckoo heave its foster-siblings/Out of the nest, to spatter...
Advancing age and the AIDS-related deaths of friends--"my everpresent dead"--figure prominently in these poems, but so does Gunn's humorous touch. In "Blues for the New Year, 1997," he notes, with tongue-in-cheek stoicism, "I'm sixty-seven/and have high blood pressure,/and probably shouldn't/be doing speed at all." When a male acquaintance appears at his door, disheveled and asking for a night's rest, the inquiring poet notes: "You don't feel anecdotal,/Give me a weary grin, And eat three plates of Total." Seeing a renowned bar brawler in his decline, Gunn...