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...College's commitment to diversity seeks to foster the rapproachment of all individuals of all ethnic backgrounds, not to promote some constructed duality between minority and majority peoples. The purpose of pluralism is to break down those distinctions to reveal individuals with their diverse heritages, not to promote the interaction of some groups to the exclusion of others...
...Robersons were accused by 11-year-old D.E.--the state's chief witness, who just happens to be the foster daughter of Wenatchee's sole sex-crimes investigator, Robert Perez--of myriad acts of child abuse, allegedly carried out not in furtive encounters but in bizarre sex parties at their church. Lurid reports describe orgies and ritual sacrifice on the altar, with Roberson and his congregation of perverts shouting "Hallelujah!" after what D.E. calls "the wild thing...
Today any mogul can see the smart arithmetic in films of low to medium budget that earn medium to high grosses. "When an action movie costs $60 million and then tanks," says actress-director Jodie Foster, "the studio takes a huge bath. But if you make reasonable films about people and how they relate to one another and the weird adventures they get into, you're actually taking a very good risk...
...Stars are becoming their own producers--not just in vanity arrangements with the studios but with a welcome assertiveness that gets things done. "Winona Ryder, Jodie Foster, Sharon Stone, Michelle Pfeiffer, Demi Moore, Meg Ryan and some others are not only stars," says Joan Hyler, president of the 13,000-member group Women in Film. "They are beginning to control their own destinies." Silverstone is just 19, yet she has a $10 million, two-picture production deal at Columbia. And she is determined not to be battered or a bimbo. "I'm prepared to do anything...
...hearings, which have been digging for political pay dirt for months, may have found some. Armed with newly uncovered telephone records, Republican members grilled two close advisers of Hillary Rodham Clinton about conversations they had with the First Lady shortly after the suicide of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster. The G.O.P. claims the phone records suggest the First Lady herself put a stop to a search of Foster's office in order to protect Whitewater records--an assertion the White House has long denied...