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...plays one of four "upwardly mobile" black women trying to make it in New York City. Sound familiar? So are all the jokes, including an extended one in the pilot episode about a roommate whose suave boyfriend turns out to be -- gasp! -- married, and predictable put-down lines that depend on characters behaving like either insufferable snobs or total idiots. Stuck-up roommate: "Are you saying that I am shallow?" Wisecracking girlfriend: "Like a kiddie pool." Proceed at your own risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fox's Growing Pains | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...Bible would appear to become the private property of very conservative religious fundamentalists," Gomes said. "Because of the ignorance of the larger [audience], we depend on the Pat Robertsons and the Jerry Falwells to tell us what the Bible says. I want to take it back from them and put it in a much broader context...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Rev. Inks $300,000 Book Deal | 8/17/1993 | See Source »

These people's careers and reputations depend on getting the information on a breaking story faster than their competitors. And it doesn't look good when some dopey college newspaper gets the scoop So getting information such as the location of Lee, who is a target of the investigation of the situation, is vital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 8/6/1993 | See Source »

...multiethnic country is rearranged along ethnic lines. More than 1.5 million Bosnian Muslims are to be jammed into wretched "safe areas" that will resemble, at best, the Gaza Strip or, at worst, the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon. The Muslim enclaves drawn on Milosevic's map will depend for survival on the power of the West and the mercy of the Serbs and Croats -- qualities in desperately short supply. Analysts are fearful of further attempts to drive the Muslims out by strangling their havens. "It would be another horrible chapter of genocide, in some ways worse than what has already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lesson in Shame | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...said Strategic Edge subscribes to several computer database services, some of which contain full articles or sections of articles. But for the many documents for which copies cannot be retrieved over the phone, he and his partner Robert J. Hutter '94 depend on the foot power of others with access to the libraries via their student status...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Company Profits on Harvard Libraries | 7/23/1993 | See Source »

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