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...Current issued the press release in time for their Spring 2000 issue--scheduled to be distributed in the beginning of March--which will cover the story in more detail...
...filed a class action suit against the agency, charging that they were passed over for promotion because of their race. One of the plaintiffs is Reginald Moore, a 16-year veteran of highly selective and dangerous assignments, including a stint as a lead agent in President Clinton's protective detail. Moore says he was poised to take over a managerial post, but was preempted when a white agent Moore had originally trained got the job instead...
...This story is rife with ironies," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "In the last couple of years, there have been quite a few women and minorities in the presidential detail - an incredibly elite and dangerous position. These people are all willing to take a bullet for the President." Only when those same agents try to move into the managerial positions, adds Branegan, do they encounter resistance. Agency figures appear to bear out the allegations: Black agents make up just over 10 percent of the Secret Service ranks but less than 5 percent of those in management positions. Frustrated...
...walked around the track cooling off--with only his security detail watching from a distance--Bush was surprisingly voluble and candid. He spoke of his college days at Yale, where he says he "worked hard and had a lot of fun" but also encountered an East Coast intellectual "arrogance" that annoyed him. He said he was furious when a stolen copy of his Yale transcript, with its gentleman Cs, turned up in print last fall in what he deemed "a violation of my civil rights," but then decided not to push the school to find the culprit. Making a smooth...
...Days after seeing the exhibit, these people in his pictures float unbidden to the surface of my mind. Hilliard has carefully created the situations in the photo, down to the pictures on the front of the cards and the empty water bottle lying in the grass. Every detail is put there to tell the story of the subject, but the final story is left to the viewer. He must interpret these details. Perhaps it is because Hilliard only works with people he knows very well, or perhaps it is because everything is so carefully staged, or maybe it is because...