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...Cerrito, Cal. firm was founded by Jeffrey D. Cook, director of admissions at Life College West--a small graduate school in California--and Jeffrey C. Moss, a communications and media specialist. For $25 an hour, they recommend schools based on surveys and interviews conducted at hundreds of colleges nationwide...
...Cook and Moss sent surveys to 500 colleges about one month ago. The questions asked about the schools' non-discrimination clauses, curriculums, student organizations and surrounding communities...
What best symbolizes black progress--and white resistance--in America is the march. Haggard slaves marched north, using moonlight and north-facing moss to get to freedom. Years later, regiments of blacks again marched north, this time in the great migration, drawn by jobs and away from Jim Crow. In the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the most poignant images were of the march: from Selma to Montgomery, then to Washington and the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King Jr. tell of a dream. New laws signaled the next campaign: blacks and whites heading toward an integrated, egalitarian...
...editor's work is never done. Or so it seems in the September issue of George, in which JOHN F. KENNEDY JR. goes to great lengths to boost his magazine's circulation. To complement the cover photo of a nude Kate Moss as Eve, Kennedy sits bare-chested and bare-kneed in dark shadow, gazing pensively at an apple. In the editor's letter, he ruminates on the nature of temptation--"I'm playing Hamlet with my willpower (Should I or shouldn't I?)." The literary reference must suffice to convey his torment because he coyly declines to reveal...
DIED. CARLTON MOSS, 88, pioneering independent filmmaker; in Los Angeles. When blacks were excluded from moviedom, he charted his own course, making little-known industrial films. His potent 1944 Army documentary, The Negro Soldier, attracted wide attention, inspiring future generations of black actors, writers and directors...