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...wasn't until my first album came out and my father started hearing my songs on the radio that he stopped asking me questions. I think now he has some conception of my success. He reads about me and people bother him and he has to change his phone number all the time. All of a sudden he's popular, and my brothers and sisters are popular in school because of their association. If he didn't know then, he knows now. He still works for General Dynamics. He's an optics and defense engineer, and he makes...
...less intense than jogging," says Gary Yanker, editor of Walking World. "More people are regular walkers than runners, about 55 million compared with 34 million." Malls--conveniently located, climate controlled and security patrolled--have rapidly emerged as the ideal site for stress-free strutting. "We don't have to bother with dogs, traffic problems, rocks, hills or pollen," exults Helen Gulledge, 69. An arthritis sufferer, she and her husband Luther, 75, who has heart trouble, tick off up to two miles daily at the Haywood Mall in Greenville, S.C. Overweight adults, pregnant women and mothers with infants are also...
Edwards probably realized that his statement wouldn't win him any popularity contests, but that didn't seem to bother him much. He said, according to the Times. "I'm one of the least popular people in this country. Most people don't like me, anyway. They never did. Not because of anything I've done, but because I'm Black...
OBVIOUSLY, IT'S NOT his cause that bother me. Just like the issue of civil rights for American Blacks at the '68 Olympics, the issue of apartheid is something that calls for stand-taking. The South African government deserves all the pressure that can be brought upon it, and in my opinion, that includes divestment by multi-national corporations doing business there. A symbolic gesture? Maybe. But I happen to be a firm believer in the power of symbolism...
...quick glance through the CRR's history reveals tales of gross incompetence and paranoia: a freshman suspended after she was misidentified in a photograph of a demonstration, a student disciplined even though he never received notification of his hearing, action taken against five students because the University did not bother to identify the other 30 to 40 involved...