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...Pacifica has 800,000 listeners, and after 50 years of being on the air, that's just not good enough," says board chair David Acosta, a Houston C.P.A. Vice chairman Ken Ford, an engineer with the conservative Housing Trade Association in Washington, says the challenge is to honor the social-justice mission while Pacifica grows. "But we are a corporation. It's nonprofit, but we have to operate as a business...
...Library in Philadelphia will unveil a collection of letters written by the Swedish sylph that have sat unread since 1960 and may portray a side of the actress never seen in her movies. The letters were given to the museum by their recipient--poet, playwright and socialite MERCEDES DE ACOSTA, who is perhaps best known for her purported affairs with Marlene Dietrich and Isadora Duncan. The correspondence is believed to suggest that Garbo also ranked among her conquests. De Acosta stipulated that the letters should remain sealed until 10 years after the death of both women. De Acosta died...
...become one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. When it was first passed, there were 31,000 women participating in intercollegiate athletics. There are now more than 120,000 female athletes in the nation's colleges. A survey by Brooklyn College professors R. Vivian Acosta and Linda Jean Carpenter shows that in 1977, a year before Title IX went into effect, women were offered an average of 5.6 teams per college; in 1996 that figure was 7.5. Even more impressive is the growth of girls' sports in high schools. While the number of boy athletes remains...
...wonderful that we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of Title IX, and so much has happened," says Carpenter. "But it's frustrating that there is still so much to be done." Acosta and Carpenter also discovered in their survey that the percentage of women coaching women's teams is down, from 49.4% in 1994 to 47.7% in 1996. While there are 1,003 more head-coaching jobs for women's teams than there were 10 years ago, there are only 333 more female head coaches...
...Kelley 3 (Acosta, Smith...