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...enormously proud of his ethnic heritage," Gates says. "He is not a racist; only to perform with black people as a matter of principal would be racist...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Quincy Jones has built a career by melding the music of four decades. | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

...Raitt fit well into Cambridge's club scene with its folk music and activist bent. She frequented Boston clubs, became familiar with artists, managers and agents and soon began to perform gigs herself at venues such as Cambridge's Club...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Activism and Song: the Raitt Way to Do It | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...sent information to the Board concerning both campus churches that do perform the ceremonies and the format of those ceremonies," Mack said. "We have followed the process weekly since February and have been satisfied to the present time that the [Board] is on track," he said...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Church Board Backs Same-Sex Ceremonies | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...skills," she says. Admitting minorities with lower scores "lets these schools off the hook." That is why even such anti-affirmative-action crusaders as Ward Connerly, the University of California regent who led the Proposition 209 campaign, are calling for "outreach": targeted efforts to help minority high school students perform better. "I am in favor of things that will reach out to those families who have never had anyone go to the University of California or go to college," he told a TIME town meeting last week in Sacramento. The University of California is proposing such a program; it wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BACK TO THE FUTURE | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...lame duck, but under the French Republic, the President has certain reserved powers, areas in which he is preeminent. These include foreign policy, security policy and diplomacy. He also retains the power to dissolve the Assembly and call new elections after a year. So if the Socialists fail to perform, Chirac might roll the dice again to see if he can get a majority. The final thing he has going in his favor is that he has time on his side. Nobody can force him out of power until his term ends in 2002. So, he's not finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chirac Weakened, But Still Alive | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

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