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...Dallas. The city is seeking businesses and community groups to underwrite the future college tuitions of some 1,000 local sixth graders, most of them blacks from poor sections of the city. To help launch the project, the man who inspired it, New York City Entrepreneur Eugene Lang, was squired through a two-day round of banquets and tributes by Dallas Mayor A. Starke Taylor Jr. Five years ago, Lang promised the 61 sixth graders at his former elementary school in Harlem that he would help pay the college tuition for every one of them who finished high school. Today...
Since last year, when the success of Lang's plan began to be publicized, nine more New York City classes, a total of 500 students, have been "adopted" by individuals who each have contributed $250,000 and agreed to keep a personal interest in the progress of "their" students. Now Lang is attempting to go national with his inspiration through "I Have a Dream," a New York City-based foundation he has established to help other communities set up similar programs. To date, he says, 20 cities in addition to Dallas, including Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami, are either organizing...
...Phillips: "That amount plus interest income from the $5 million will sustain the fund." Whether the Dallas program will be as well supported remains to be seen. By week's end about 30 still had no benefactors. But Elaine Farrell, a board member of STEP who helped bring Lang to Dallas, is confident. "We know we can make it work," she says. "So we're hitting the pavement...
Crime Story, co-written by ex-Chicago Detective Chuck Adamson and supposedly based on his own experiences, will follow three characters -- the police lieutenant, a rising young mobster (Anthony Denison) and a lawyer (Stephen Lang) -- over a period of nearly two decades. The two-hour premiere, set in 1962, is in many ways a throwback. The cops wear black trench coats and fedoras and wield their pistols with one hand, cowboy-style, rather than by Hill Street's two-handed method. The Mob characters seem to predate The Godfather, and nobody has heard of drugs. Most of the crimes...
Watch out, America, full moon's coming. That's when a wily psychopath -- a werewolf of modern paranoid fantasies -- turns some idyllic suburban home into a slaughterhouse. And when anyone wanders too close, the psycho (Tom Noonan) festers into action. A tabloid journalist (Stephen Lang) ends up flambeed in a runaway wheelchair. A photo-lab technician (Joan Allen), whose blindness has not inhibited her taste for sexual adventure, invites the psycho home and is soon in mortal peril. His only nemesis is Will Graham (William L. Petersen), an ex-FBI agent who uses a kind of Method forensics to identify...