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...Home, at least, gets points for making the audience's white surrogate a woman and for giving equal emotional weight to the black woman who spurs her toward responsible action. In Montgomery in 1955, blacks are boycotting city buses until they are allowed to sit wherever they please. ! Odessa Cotter (Whoopi Goldberg) must walk nine miles to her job as maid for the Thompson family. And Miriam Thompson (Sissy Spacek) must take a painful journey too, from the blinkered bourgeoisie to courageous solidarity with her sisters under the skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dole List | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

...Student Aid Services, Inc.--the private, for-profit company run by three Harvard officials and a Bowdoin College administrator--was formed in 1983 when the clerical work became "too burdensome" for Harvard to do itself, said Colby College President William R. Cotter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Nuts And Bolts Of SAS: How Colleges Share Information | 9/22/1989 | See Source »

...cost of college is a hot topic because tuitions will increase up to 9% this fall. Total costs at Harvard currently run about $20,000 a year; Maine's Colby College costs about $18,900. The similarity is not the result of price fixing, says Colby President William Cotter. The reason, he says, is "that a Ford costs about the same as a Chevy," or in the case of Harvard and Yale, a BMW costs about the same as a Jaguar. Cotter admits that the market is not price sensitive. "A family decides on private vs. public," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brain Trusts | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

...Crimson managed a two-out first inning threat when Beth Wambach and Elizabeth Crowley had consecutive base hits, but Fromholz's ground ball up the middle was speared by Holy Cross pitcher Amy Cotter...

Author: By Jonathan D. Unger, | Title: Weary Batswomen Drop Pair | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

Appropriately, he starts at the beginning, in 1932 and the State Senate campaign of John Cotter. Cotter--and Sutton--lost that first campaign, but Sutton still has fond memories of the man he followed in politics; he describes Cotter as "a gas meter reader, who sold cars--a neighborhood kid with an exceptionally fine personality--one of the most most honest people I've ever been associated with in politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Hidden Political Legend | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

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