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Epps acknowledges that the administration would prefer less-risky modes of public service than PBHA would like, and the 1994 Report on the Structure of Harvard College says the need to simplify PBHA's programs comes from legitimate safety concerns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debate on PBHA Structure Rages | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

Dole also has a clear position on affirmative action, albeit a new one: he introduced legislation last year to end all federal racial and gender preferences, after having supported them for two decades. So he too must tread carefully and slowly. First, affirmative action may be the most pointed arrow in his quiver, and he may prefer to save it until later in the contest. But more immediately, Dole knows it would be quite unwise to make an overhaul of affirmative action a campaign issue as long as he clings to even the slimmest prospect of attracting Colin Powell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ROUGH POLITICS OF VIRTUE | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...What seemed to come so easily to Kennedy--charm, good humor, small talk--were impossible skills for the perennially awkward Nixon. In the 1960 election both men seemed to underestimate each other. Nixon thought Kennedy too green to be President, while Kennedy could not imagine why any American would prefer Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: RICH MAN, POOR MAN | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...Victor/Victoria to be nominated for a Tony Award, JULIE ANDREWS put her foot down. In front of an adoring matinee crowd, she announced that she was bowing out of the Tonys. "I have searched my conscience and my heart, and I find that I cannot accept this nomination--and prefer to stand with the egregiously overlooked," said Andrews, still in costume. Perhaps most overlooked: director Blake Edwards, Andrews' husband, whose career could have used a boost from a Best Musical nomination. Says Tony Adams, a Victor/Victoria producer: "There seems to be a bias against commercial shows." The Tony organizers might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 20, 1996 | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

Blikk: Not in Hungary. Here it was called Slut. How did it come to publish? Were you lovemaking with a man-about-town printer? Do you prefer making suggestive literature to fast-selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MADONNA: I AM A TIP-TOP STARLET | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

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