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News, which typically appeals to an older audience, never fit in with Fox's efforts to attract a young crowd with shows like The Simpsons and Melrose Place. "When I was there," says David Corvo, yet another ex-CBS executive who spent some time at Fox, "my strong feeling was that virtually nobody in the company except Murdoch was interested in supporting the development of a news division beyond what was needed to service affiliate newscasts...
Still, Fitzsimmons is optimistic about Harvard's ability to attract students from different class backgrounds. "The reality is that the future leadership of this country are going to come from an increasing variety of ethnic and economic backgrounds," he said. "One of the things we are doing here is educating future leaders. Everybody has their own set of obstacles that they need to overcome...
...means guilty of perpetuating desensitization to race issues in the broad sense; on the contrary, they are responsible for much of the popular interest and concern about the current race crisis in America. But they are at the forefront of their field and are able to attract large audiences and book buyers. If they take it upon themselves to write The Future of the Race, it is their responsibility to seriously enhance the discourse surrounding the issue of race in America, which I fear this book...
ValuJet's low fares undeniably attract customers who would otherwise have had to pay Delta's prices. Art Gilbert, 42, an insurance consultant from Baltimore, Maryland, recently traveled the 48 miles to Dulles Airport in northern Virginia to take a ValuJet flight to Atlanta. "I live closer to Baltimore's BWI Airport, but this flight is $400 cheaper than the other carriers," says Gilbert. "My round trip ticket cost...
...seems that the College might not be too different today than it was about 30 years ago, when Kaczynski was holed up in Eliot House instead of a Montana cabin. In fact, Harvard may now attract even more anti-social freaks and wierdos. It seems that every year brings a new bumper crop of odd first-years to Cambridge. And many of the students who appear normal when they arrive in the Yard soon mutate into loners with disturbing personalities...