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...terms of gay relations with the wider world, the AIDS era brought more general acknowledgment, by the news media and the government, of the sheer numbers of U.S. gay men and women -- a minority roughly as numerous as blacks or Hispanics, four times as numerous as Jews. It brought frank, nonjudgmental discussion of their lovemaking, including anatomical mechanics, into the nation's newspapers and even some of its classrooms. The epidemic helped prompt big-city mayors and police departments to appoint liaisons to their gay communities. It opened the doors of charities and foundations, of newspaper and TV editors, even...
...mount a rally. Hey, chill out, replies Jordan. "We have too much talent, and we'll turn it on whenever we have to." Daly frets that the three-point shooting line in international basketball is closer to the basket than in the N.B.A. and that the lane is wider, both tending to nullify the Americans' height advantage. However, after seeing how little difference these factors made in his team's 136-57 loss to the Yanks, Cuban coach Miguel Gomez seemed transported to a Zen mode. "One finger cannot cover the sun," he said...
...rate for lending to banks a hefty .75%, to 8.75%, the highest level since 1931. But to spur world economic recovery, the board at the same time left unchanged, at 9.75%, the so-called Lombard rate, which governs charges for overnight loans among banks in Germany and has a wider international impact than the discount rate...
...takes now over his sporadic bouts with the saxophone, his band director, Virgil Spurlin, says he was very talented and dogged in his practice: "He could sight-read with the best, and he kept me busy finding scores for him to read." Music seemed a way to test the wider horizons offered in Hot Springs; despite excellent grades, he would be offered more musical scholarships than academic ones when he graduated from high school...
...toughest part of the story for Riley may have been deciding whether to do it at all. Wouldn't the publicity wind up giving wider currency to virulent views? he asked himself. Wouldn't it be better to ignore the racists? The anger spawned at rallies he attended convinced Riley otherwise. "As someone once told me, mushrooms grow best in the dark, so better to shine some light." I think you'll agree that the Riley-Campbell combination illuminates this subject pretty well...