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...Afro-American department, and all of my teachers are in the Barker Center," says Rodney M. Glasgow '01. "It gives us a locus of concentration. It makes it really easy to get in touch with people when they're all right there...
Since I can remember, the Lions have spent big money on such sure-fire quarterback prospects as Chuck Long, Andre Ware and Rodney Peete. They were fine in college, and are currently living comfortably on fat contracts doled out by Detroit, the NFL's version of public assistance for quarterbacks without marketable job skills...
...from the Terry McMillan novel that McMillan based on her own affair with a young Jamaican, is the sort of surefire bathos that Hollywood has long loved to dip into; Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson made it float in the 1955 All That Heaven Allows. Stella, directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan, isn't in that league. With its diffuse lighting and teary sex scenes (the camera can't take its eye off Diggs' extravagant muscularity), the film qualifies as soft-pore cornography. But, heck, Bette Davis spent half her career ennobling similar kitsch. Like Davis and other strong actresses, Bassett...
...stripped to bare essentials. The voice, the timing, the jokes are your only weapons. Every second of uneasy silence is a little death. I launch into my monologue: "You've been reading about Kenneth Starr and grand-jury leaks. Well, I can't get one. I'm the Rodney Dangerfield of investigative reporters." A small laugh, less than a guffaw, more than a titter. But that's all I need. I'm launched...
Last week the feds stirred. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater said he may impose fines to stop predatory behavior by big airlines. "There is growing concern that the major carriers are willing to lose money--lots of it--in the short run to drive off competition," says Slater. The department must wait 60 days before clipping any wings, and clearly Slater hopes the majors will back off before he has to start. Meanwhile, the Justice Department has begun an investigation into possible anticompetitive practices...