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...California Civil Rights Initiative--a moniker that expresses Custred and Wood's central strategic insight, which was to present the initiative as a direct descendent of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The wording of the proposition is adapted from the 1964 Civil Rights Act. None of the advocates of the proposition who appears regularly before the public is a white male. Its advertising slogan is "Bring us together." The idea the pro-proposition forces are selling is that affirmative action has introduced obsessive color consciousness into what otherwise would be a color-blind society, and thus hurts black...
...unless you are brave enough to land a small plane on the grassy little airstrip, where horses tend to graze. The National Park Service owns a huge tract of land; a few very wealthy families and a handful of longtime residents own the rest. There is no telephone service; none of the roads are paved; and only the Park Service and full-time residents are allowed to have cars...
...bitter breakup may be natural, it can be dangerous too. Manhattan psychotherapist Carole Fudin reports that one of her patients shredded her husband's wardrobe. Another crashed her car into his. A third woman came within inches of running her husband down, hitting the brakes just in time. Fortunately, none of them went as far as La Jolla, California, socialite Betty Broderick, who in 1989 gunned down her ex-husband and his new young wife, an assistant from his law office, in their bedroom. "One way or another," says Fudin of her clients, "these women need to talk...
...gets from their performances goes towards transportation costs and jackets for the team, although the group has yet to agree on a jacket design. And although some dubious fund-raising schemes were apparently discussed recently, including convincing unsavvy first-years to buy season OTI tickets at $10 each, none have been implemented...
...Crimson took on Colgate in the first of their two matches. Although Harvard came out of the blocks well, it found itself down two games to none. "We started out well," said sophomore outside hitter Melissa Forcum. "The first two games were really close...