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...voters have been called creaky (retired folks with time on their hands) and conservative (preferring a no-risk, pbs-style format). They are also frequently accused of cronyism. The co-producer of one of the new nominees, Maya Lin, is Freida Lee Mock, the committee's chairwoman. Though Mock stepped off the panel this year, critic Roger Ebert sees the nomination as "logrolling. It's something you expect in pie-baking contests at the county fair." Many past nominated films have been made by committee members or have been distributed by Direct Cinema, a company run by committee sachem Mitchell...
...NAACP Chairwoman Myrlie Evers-Williams left her dying husband's bedside on Saturday to be present for the close vote that elected her, and to preside over her first meeting as chair. Early this morning, Walter Williams died of cancer. "She got home just in time for him to recognize her," says TIME's White. "It was literally a choice between life and death. He told her, 'It's too important, you have to go.'" Evers-Williams lost her first husband, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, to an assassin's bullet three decades...
...NAACP Chairwoman Myrlie Evers-Williams left her dying husband's bedside on Saturday to be present for the close vote that elected her, and to preside over her first meeting as chair. Early this morning, Walter Williams died of cancer. "She got home just in time for him to recognize her," says TIME's White. "It was literally a choice between life and death. He told her, 'It's too important, you have to go.'" Evers-Williams lost her first husband, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, to an assassin's bullet three decades...
Even many of the new full-time positions have been relatively low-paid. As a result of all these trends, says Laura D'Andrea Tyson, chairwoman of Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, "average earnings have barely increased in real terms" -- that is, discounted for inflation. In fact, there was no rise whatever in real average hourly earnings last year...
...think she's frightened to death," says former diva Beverly Sills, now chairwoman of Lincoln Center. "She's obviously an insecure girl, with a perfectly beautiful voice. You can't do an opera all by yourself. No matter how big a superstar you are, if you don't have a collaboration with your colleagues, you're in a lot of trouble. I think it's wiser to concentrate on singing like a prima donna than on acting like...