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A bumpy ride. (reader forum).


I was saddened to open your yearend issue to find yet more sniping at Dan Pallotta ["Building a Better Ride," January January: see month.  21]. I dated Dan for a few months in 1983. I was a senior at Tufts University Tufts University, main campus at Medford, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1852 by Universalists as a college for men. It became a university in 1955. Jackson College, formerly a coordinate undergraduate college for women, merged with the College of Liberal Arts in ; Dan had recently graduated from Harvard. Handsome, brilliant, and well-educated, Dan easily could have disappeared into corporate America to make his fortune. Instead, he used his considerable talents to become the most successful AIDS fund-raiser this side of Elizabeth Taylor Noun 1. Elizabeth Taylor - United States film actress (born in England) who was a childhood star; as an adult she often co-starred with Richard Burton (born in 1932)
Taylor
. And how has the community paid him back? With catty cat·ty 1  
adj. cat·ti·er, cat·ti·est
1. Subtly cruel or malicious; spiteful: a catty remark.

2. Catlike; stealthy.
 remarks from otherwise kind-hearted souls who seem to prefer death and suffering to raising funds in the "wrong" way.

John Twinam, Jamestown, N.Y.
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Author:Twinam, John
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Letter to the Editor
Date:Feb 18, 2003
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