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...This story is rife with ironies," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "In the last couple of years, there have been quite a few women and minorities in the presidential detail - an incredibly elite and dangerous position. These people are all willing to take a bullet for the President." Only when those same agents try to move into the managerial positions, adds Branegan, do they encounter resistance. Agency figures appear to bear out the allegations: Black agents make up just over 10 percent of the Secret Service ranks but less than 5 percent of those in management positions. Frustrated...
...contrast to Illingworth's low-key semester, Lewis' first few months were rife with controversy...
...movie is rife with unusually frank love scenes; Jordan says it's no coincidence that his film, produced independently in the U.K., was made wholly outside the Hollywood studio system: "The End of the Affair is one of the most frankly erotic books ever written. I wanted to make my film's [sex scenes] as truly as the book does. When I see sex scenes between Hollywood actors, they're always terribly violent. They're always shoving each other's head against the wall, or ripping up a table full of crockery and throwing the girl down...
...home was half an hour away from Vineland, N.J., the Ku Klux Klan's largest center in the Northeast, she says. She served on a committee fighting hate crimes during her senior year, a time when her school was rife with racial tension...
...life can now return to bustling normality. He will continue with his comic-book writing, scripts for Miramax and Warner Bros. (a Superman draft didn't work out) and a prime-time cartoon version of Clerks for, of course, Disney. "It's just rife with irony, isn't it?" he says. "Let's see if we can deliver the PG my mother was always lookin' for." But his biggest project is to enjoy time with his new wife Jennifer Schwalbach, a former writer for USA Today, and their newborn daughter Harley Quinn. "I want to take the next year...