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Sally Jessy Raphael commenting on former Education Secretary Williams Bennett's new campaign to pressure daytime television talk show producers, sponsors and viewers to clean up their acts...
Having embarrassed Time Warner into dropping its share of a rap label, Bill Bennett is now turning his formidable authority to daytime TV talk shows, urging them to clean up their programming or get off the air. "He certainly picked a juicy topic," says TIME's Richard Zoglin. "There is definitely a lot to get upset about. The fact is that these shows are very, very popular. What Bennett is essentially trying to do is get people to vote them off the air by turning off their television sets. And, to me, it seems that is a legitimate tactic." Bennett...
...with Farrakhan's derogation of other ethnic groups, his demotion of black women to a secondary position and his sometime disdain for Christianity itself. Many see the march as a power grab, noting that until Chavis belatedly came on board, it was an all-Muslim enterprise. Said the Rev. Bennett Smith Sr., president of the 2.5 million-member Progressive National Baptist Convention: "If you are going to invite me to ride on your airplane, don't send me a ticket after the plane takes off." The Rev. Henry J. Lyons, of the 8.2 million-member National Baptist Convention, informed...
Ever wonder why celebrities are more famous than other people? It's because they ooze creativity. For example, not only have MILES DAVIS, TONY BENNETT, RICHARD GERE and DAVID BYRNE elbowed themselves room at fame's bar for their performing abilities; they're also gifted visual artists. Indeed, they must be gifted, because their handiwork isn't cheap. Gere's work, currently on display in a Manhattan art gallery, sells for $12,500 a portfolio (all proceeds to charity), and some of the late Davis' pieces are expected to fetch up to $100,000 when they go on sale...
...important research at the intersections of different disciplines, as well as help to train a new generation of scholars with both discipline-specific expertise and cross-disciplinary breadth," says Schacter. "This new generation of scholars will help to create the synergies that will shape 21st-century science."CrimsonRebecca L. Bennett...