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...some students at the extension school, overcoming intimidation is paramount to their ultimate goal. According to Ouchida, the extension school administration is currently working hard to try to create more of a community among their students with the creation of a panoply of extension school extracurriculars as well as a quarterly newsletter for those in the undergraduate degree program, the UN-Letter. However, Huff pointed out that many extension school students she knows would probably rather integrate into the already existing Harvard community than form an entirely...
...middle-class African Americans as "not very black" and "ghetto blacks" as those who "bury themselves in black-itude." Other charges: that he manufactured anonymous quotes, kept staff members from reporting negative stories about his friends and violated his own conflict-of-interest rule by selling a screenplay to Paramount. Bart denied the allegations...
...World and hadn't been revisited since Burt Reynolds took to the road in the Cannonball Run flicks some 20 years ago. "I remember those comedies," says Lansing, "and I enjoyed them. I said, 'My God, what happened to that genre?'" Paramount hired Andy Breckman, a writer best known for his work with Saturday Night Live and David Letterman, who penned a screenplay free of fart jokes and full of ambitious, carefully crafted gags. Enter Jerry Zucker...
...Fried Movie, a collection of bits adapted from their stage sketches. As a three-headed writing-directing team, the Zucker brothers and Abrahams (known as ZAZ) struck it rich with Airplane! in 1980 and created the Police Squad! TV series, which later became the Naked Gun movies--one of Paramount's most enduring franchises...