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...boycotts in 1999, the networks recast series, appointed diversity czars and instituted minority recruitment and training programs. Last year, with the media and activists looking over the networks' shoulders, those efforts produced results--mostly African Americans plugged into ensembles. But there is no Latino Cosby Show or even Steve Harvey Show. Hispanics still have trouble getting parts other than the perp, the victim or that newly resurgent figure, the maid/nanny. (A rare exception was Esai Morales, recently added to NYPD Blue as Lieutenant Tony Rodriguez.) In the Latino actors' community, the scarcity of roles makes casting "like throwing meat...
...sometimes embarrassed by their mom's presence and influence in the schools. "It's hard to tell if teachers are reacting to you as a person or if [their behavior] is colored by their impressions of your parent," says Laura Kanofsky, 19, who will be a sophomore at Harvey Mudd College in California in the fall. When it came time to apply for college, Laura says matter-of-factly, she determined that "anywhere my mom could drive to by lunchtime was too close...
...their Mob overlords. Also flying into the city that afternoon is a Las Vegas cop named Wayne Tedrow Jr., who has been paid $6,000 by casino operators in his hometown to kill a black pimp named Wendell Durfee. Bondurant and Littell strongarm Jack Ruby into shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, but Tedrow blows his murderous assignment during a fit of conscience. His scruples will diminish when he hooks up with Littell and Bondurant...
Stone's quote, which caused widespread speculation at the time, seemed to favor Harvard Provost Harvey V. Fineberg `67, former dean of the School of Public Health and the highest-ranking scientist in the Rudenstine administration...
...There is a sense of loss in that Harvey was an extraordinary human being," says Bloom. "An awful lot of people hoped he would become president...