Word: counsels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...murmured support for separate-but-equal education is growing more audible within the N.A.A.C.P., it may be because so little progress has been made since those historic days. Says Ted Shaw, associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: "You're beating your head up against the wall until it's bloody. At some point you have to ask, 'Should I continue to beat up against this wall?' To ask that question is not a terrible thing...
...Bennett says Pacific Bell has been installing local service for only about 100 new AT&T customers a day, forcing him to scale back marketing efforts in the Golden State. New MCI subscribers have experienced similar delays. Jonathan Sallet, MCI's chief policy counsel, says PacBell takes an average of three weeks to switch on MCI customers in California, although PacBell switches on its own clients in seven days. Replies a spokesman for PacBell parent SBC: "We have spent $1.2 billion to fulfill our obligation to open our networks. You'd be hard-pressed to find another company that...
...sister Bells say the real problem is that AT&T and MCI do not want to get into the local market, because to do so would free the Bells to compete in the long-distance domain. Says Jim Ellis, SBC's general counsel: "We can bring them [the long-distance companies] to water, but we can't make them drink." Retorts Dan Schulman, AT&T's vice president for local marketing: "To say that we're not interested in moving into local residential service could not be farther from the truth...
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...true story how of Queen Victoria (Judi Dench), locked in grief after Prince Albert's death, has her death-in-life is changed by a humble horseman named John Brown. He speaks boldly to her and rudely to her children. He takes her on long walks, gives her counsel; most important, he makes her laugh. "Nicely, the movie lets viewers decide whether Brown is a devoted servant or a devious bully and whether the Queen?s long bereavement is partly stubbornness masquerading as principle," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "It also provides a field day for some wonderful actors...