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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...send these AFDC people back to school. How come we don't do that for the working poor?" asks Eloise Anderson, an African American who grew up in a poor neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio, and now heads the California Department of Social Services. "They made the same bad decisions, except the working poor usually live with their decisions; they go to work, they say, 'Hey, I blew it, but I'm working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORKING HARDER, GETTING NOWHERE | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

...University of Southern California. Still, Hollywood was wary when Howard tried to move behind the camera. "When I set up Night Shift, most studio executives didn't want Ron to direct it," recalls his longtime producing partner, Brian Grazer. "Some of those people are still around today--except now they're all trying to kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: NICE GUY AT MISSION CONTROL | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

Everyone, maybe, except Howard, whose career disappointments have been precious few. Yet he is typically modest about the technical feat of making Apollo 13. "I always feel like I'm flying by the seat of my pants," he says, chuckling. "I could carry the analogy further and say I haven't even come close to making a movie on autopilot yet. I hope I never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: NICE GUY AT MISSION CONTROL | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

...certain unspecified academic criteria. But, at bottom, the committee will necessarily be asking whether a Harvard Medial School Professor ought to be lending his credibility to stories of space alien abductions. It is extremely unusual for great universities to second-guess the research or publications of their tenured faculty, except for allegations of fraud, plagiarism or violations of patients' or students' rights. For example, New York City College has never formally investigated in "research" and claims of Professor Leonard Jeffries that "melanin" has an influence on racial characteristics and makes blacks better than whites, or of a white professor...

Author: By Alan M. Dershowitz, | Title: Defining Academic Freedom | 6/30/1995 | See Source »

...high French inflation taught a 13-year-old Gingrich that "when a government cheats its own people by inflating the currency rather than facing tough political decisions, it is inviting trouble." On the return trip to America, the teenager vowed to change the world: "There was no moral choice except to immerse myself inthe process of learning how to lead and how to be effective." Previous TIME Daily Campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS . . . TO RENEW AMERICA | 6/30/1995 | See Source »

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