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...conscience; a black New Yorker who attracted white Southern voters and Wasp CEOs like lint; the man who kept gays out of the military but endorsed gay parents as long as they create a home with love and discipline; a geology major who became, in the words of Gerald Ford and the view of many others, "the best public speaker in America"; the product of one of the most rigid, hierarchical institutions in American life who had a chance to realign political parties and reinvent race relations; a relative political unknown who inspired huge trust; a black...
...growing consensus that gigantic black holes lurk at the core of many galaxies--including our own--was confirmed by Holland Ford, now at Johns Hopkins, and his collaborators, who used the Hubble to spot a superheated disk of gas spinning at a dizzying 1.2 million m.p.h. at the very heart of the galaxy M87, 50 million light-years from Earth. The only reasonable explanation: the gas is funneling, like water down a drain, into the gravitational pit of a black hole as massive as 2 million suns...
...ashtrays. Fake versions of its handbags were sold on urban street corners everywhere. Then, suddenly, it found a shoe that fit: a sexy, backless clodhopper that became the must-have of devotees of high style in 1993. Gucci went on a winning streak. By March 1995 its designer, Tom Ford, was electrifying the fashion world with a revival of '60s rebellion. Soon celebrities like Madonna were in head-to-toe Gucci. At the company's London boutique this fall was a waiting list 100 chic names long for the new, $325 velvet hip-huggers. At Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan...
...demands on American government--at all levels--have never been greater," said Franklin A. Thomas, president of the Ford Foundation, in a written statement, "We are challenged to provide opportunities for all Americans to prosper and to help solve their communities' problems. And, in this time of fiscal constraints, we are challenged to find ways to do more with less...
...Ford Foundation--a private, nonprofit institution--has an endowment of $7 billion, which it uses to fund innovative individuals and institutions who undertake projects devoted to democracy, international cooperation and human achievement...