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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presence of independent films has finally reached the crescendo we have anticipated throughout the 90s. Rather than a single My Left Foot or The Crying Game to represent the Little Film, this year's oddball is Jerry Maguire, the only Hollywood project to earn a slot in the Picture race. The somnambulists who voted in featherweight tripe like Scent of a Woman and Field of Dreams are finally hibernating where they belong. As Shakespeare once apostrophized, "Studios, studios, where art thou, studios...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, | Title: AND THE Winner Is... | 3/20/1997 | See Source »

Walters was the first woman to host the "Today" show and was also the first broadcast journalist to earn over $1 million a year...

Author: By Matthew R. Hubbard, | Title: Barbara Walters Gets Journalism Award | 3/19/1997 | See Source »

Spare Change gives homeless people a chance to earn money by selling them newspapers for 35 cents which they resell on the street...

Author: By Jason T. Benowitz, | Title: College Contributes To Spare Change Fund | 3/15/1997 | See Source »

...center said that the SAT consistently underpredicts women's grades in their first year in college. Although young women earn higher grades for the same high-school courses and comprise 56 percent of students who take the Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test (PSAT), they only make up 40 percent of all National Merit Scholars, the center said...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Group Says SAT Biased | 3/15/1997 | See Source »

...late 1960s, surrounded by the Eastern elite: at Georgetown University, Oxford and Yale Law School. He protested for racial justice and against the war in Vietnam. He grew a beard, didn't inhale and was as undisciplined then as now, studying in last-minute crams and failing to earn a degree at Oxford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LOTT LIKE CLINTON? | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

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