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'Pandemic: Facing AIDS'

By PAUL FARMER

It is perhaps unfair to begin a review of what is essentially a fine and instructive work of art by criticizing what it isn't. In Pandemic: Facing AIDS, Rory Kennedy has produced a jewel of a film -- or, rather, five jewels, since the individual half-hour segments will be broadcast separately by HBO starting on June 15.

The documentary as a whole follows the...

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