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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...American society, there's a whole political logic of fairness proportionate to our numbers," says Kenneth Prewitt, a professor of public affairs at Columbia University and former director of the Census Bureau. "This is where that starts." A big score in that regard this year: for the first time the Census will put out a report on the number of people reporting to be in gay marriages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Census Games: Groups Gear Up to Be Counted | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...white or black for their children. They sent pictures and asked which parent the Census wanted their kids to deny. "They explicitly said it's about representation and respect, because no one thought there was going to be a special government program for children of mixed-race parents," says Prewitt, who was running the bureau at the time. "The Census is the picture we draw of ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Census Games: Groups Gear Up to Be Counted | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...fascination with Barbie has kept countless numbers of people in work. Oklahoma artist Debbie Curtis has built a career around painting Barbie portraits, Texans John and Cindy Prewitt run a business selling handmade furniture for Barbie, and North Carolina's Bradley Justice runs a specialty Barbie shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barbie's 50th Birthday Convention | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...kinda tired of this Harvard square / Yeah, they’re kinda smart but I’m hardly scared.” Liu gradually wins the audience over with his quick, aggressive lyrics. In the final round, he ismet by Mikal N. Floyd-Prewitt ‘06, aka MC Mikal.Floyd-Prewitt is the yin to Liu’s yang. His flow is relaxed, comical, more blatantly offensive. His oversized white sunglasses and white polo shirt—collar popped—provoke some competitors to roast him as middle-class, but he withstands the barbs through opponent...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Freestylers Battle, But Does It Really Matter? | 3/16/2006 | See Source »

...there been longer hours in the hot breakfast Houses, too, I think the vote for hot breakfast would have carried a lot better,” William T. Prewitt ’79, the CHUL student representative from North House—now Pforzheimer House—told The Crimson in January...

Author: By Nalina Sombuntham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hold The Eggs | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

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