Word: programer
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Oprah and Geraldo should brace themselves. The Rev. Jesse Jackson is starting his own TV talk show. The two-time Democratic presidential candidate announced last week that he has signed on with a subsidiary of Warner Communications to produce Voices of America with Jesse Jackson, a weekly one-hour program that will debut in the fall of next year, if stations decide to buy it. The surprisingly early announcement may have been meant to kill rumors that Jackson may try to become mayor of Washington in the November 1990 elections. If so, it failed. While declaring once again that...
...Johnston figured that donors would give more cheerfully if they were sure the handouts would go to a good purpose. In a pilot program last March, she asked businesses to buy books of the $2.50 coupons to be distributed to street people instead of the customary coins. Initial results were so good the program became permanent. Soon the center will offer coupons in various denominations and book sizes. The brightest sign so far is that some panhandlers have begun asking for coupons instead of cash...
What can a hate group do to clean up its dirty image? The Reidsville klavern of North Carolina's Ku Klux Klan thought it had come up with a tidy answer: it offered to join the state's Adopt-a-Highway program, under which 5,000 civic and social organizations have agreed to keep 10,000 miles of state highways clear of litter. At least four times a year, the Klansmen would exchange their white robes for orange vests and pick up trash along three miles of U.S. 158, east of Reidsville. In return, a sign noting their good deeds...
...offer that North Carolina's department of transportation found too good to accept. "The Klan is atypical of the groups that have been involved with the program," explained James Sughrue, a DOT official. No other volunteers, except a cub-scout pack considered too young to be on the roads, had been turned down for the highway-cleanup project. Rockey Chapman, head of the klavern, admitted he wanted "that sign to advertise my group." He asked the state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union to sue for a reversal of the rejection. The A.C.L.U. was expected...
Harvard does not have a cheerleading squad that could rival an Alabama or a Michigan. At Harvard, there are no cheerleaders for basketball, or for hockey--as there are in some schools. Nevertheless, Harvard is moving toward creating a more substantial cheerleading program...