Word: burners
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...former Congressman Ron Dellums, along with a few church and charitable organizations, have aggressively addressed the disaster in Africa. As Rivers says, it's long past time for black leaders "to come from under the shroud of denial and apathy" and make fighting the African AIDS crisis a front-burner issue in next year's presidential campaign. In other words, to transform our professed love for our Motherland into more than Afrocentric lip service...
Diversity on TV is not exactly a front-burner issue for many African Americans either. And it's likely that Mfume will face some grumbling from civil rights old-liners that any goodwill covenant with the networks that lacks enforcement teeth is not worth much. But Mfume may wind up having more impact by playing the Negotiator than the Terminator...
Putting the idea of a law degree on the back burner, Mazzoleni decided to change direction. After speaking to Ron Mason, his coach at Michigan State, he learned of an open coaching position at Illinois-Chicago...
Then on March 8 of this year, just as senior bars were starting to become an integral part of my college experience and academic minutia were being relegated to life's back burner with increasing frequency, Joe DiMaggio passed away...
...their latest big idea to finally win a budget fight with Bill Clinton: Accuse Clinton and the Democrats, over and over, of planning to raid the pension system's trust funds to pay for Big Government spending programs. With that $792 billion tax cut languishing on a far-back burner, "Stop the Raid" is the GOP's last bid for America's hearts and minds in 2000 before George W. Bush takes over as message man in the spring. The problem is, we have seen the raiders, and it is the Republicans...