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...Foundation does out $20,000 to minority student organizations each semester and sponsors a program of visiting scholars from "neglected cultures." College officials have touted the Foundation as the "proactive" arm of its race relations programming complementing the "reactive" Office of Race Relations...

Author: By John Tessitore, | Title: College Brings Red Tape to Race Relations Policy | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...lesbian lawyer with a taste for vengeance and violence. There are also plenty of laughs for Alexandra Gersten as a daughter forever finding herself, William Youmans as a good- natured but doltish son-in-law prone to getting beaten up (he does an exquisite ballet of pain as an arm in a sling gets wrenched anew) and Jack Wallace as a veteran cop full of salty scorn for anything he cannot understand. The opening act is a fast 90 minutes of wit and surprise; the shorter second act eventually winds down into wearying explication and mawkish reconciliation, yet a saving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Drugs, Porn And Soup | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...Ladies are supposed to place their hand on the groove in their partner's arm where his biceps should be," Weinstein says. "But with Harvard guys, the key phrase is 'should...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Those Dancin' Shoes | 3/3/1993 | See Source »

Murdoch was most impressed with Diller's attention to detail and tight hand on the purse strings. "He was a very conservative manager," says Murdoch. "He would arm-wrestle movie producers for months." But after Murdoch moved to Los Angeles and started taking a more active role in his entertainment company, Diller began to chafe. "I never really felt I worked for Rupert Murdoch," he says. "I made decisions as if I owned the place." A turning point came at a News Corp. board meeting in the summer of 1991, when Diller made some suggestions that seemed to be ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Old Fox Learns New Tricks: BARRY DILLER | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

Osborn's commission, which is an arm of Congress, advocates abstinence as the best way to prevent AIDS. She said government figures show 45,000 new people are infected with the HIV-virus every year, and the some of the greatest increases of AIDS cases are among young people...

Author: By Steven G. Dickstein, | Title: Osborn Calls for Change In Thinking on AIDS | 2/26/1993 | See Source »

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