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This play traces the relationships between a Southern belle mother, Amanda Wingfield (Jacqueline Jourdain Hayes); her son Tom (Peter Mitchell), a poet starved for adventure; and her daughter Laura (Jeanne Simpson), a painfully shy cripple. Throughout the play, Ms. Wingfield battles Laura's shyness and conspires to introduce her daughter to a "gentleman caller...
...Talshir, marijuana relieves the spasticity associated with MS. For others, marijuana provides the only effective relief from the almost unberable nausea caused by chemotherapy. And for those with AIDS, it is one of the few known effective appetite enhancers...
...Herald and David Ropeik of the city's WCVB-TV suggested that Stuart's brother was complicit. The district attorney sued unsuccessfully to make them reveal sources, arguing that other means had been exhausted. Says Ropeik: "I happen to know that the question, - 'Were you Mr. Ropeik's or Ms. Mangan's source?' was not put to a number of people who appeared before the grand jury...
...likely, when you look more closely at the women's roles. Like Ms. Warshawski, they fall into three stereotypes: butch, babe and baby sitter...
Another problem that drove IBM and Apple into each other's arms is their growing friction with some powerful partners, most notably Microsoft, the suburban Seattle software giant run by wunderkind billionaire William Gates III. Microsoft was the creator of MS-DOS, the software that runs the IBM PC, but the two companies have had a falling out over the next generation, called OS/2, which runs IBM's line of PS/2 computers. Microsoft developed OS/2 as well, but IBM believes the software company has undermined sales of that software by pushing a highly successful program called Windows 3.0, which enables...