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Seventy-five percent of Americans oppose racial preferences and two-thirds want to "change" affirmative action programs, according to a 1995 Washington Post/ABC poll. U.S. News and World Report found that 51 percent of whites say equal rights have been pushed too far. Likewise, Littlejohn says a segment of the majority population still needs to be convinced of the "business case...
Wanna be JULIA ROBERTS' boyfriend? There are two requirements: be famous; be seen with her. Last week's rumor had Roberts cooing with MATTHEW PERRY from Friends. And purported photographic proof of their liaison exists, thanks to American Journal, which shot a segment on the Friends set when Roberts did a cameo. Not only did Roberts and Perry kiss in the course of televisual duty; they were also seen together afterward. This brings the tally of men Roberts has reportedly been linked with since just before her split from Lyle Lovett to six, not counting the really nutty stories...
Nevertheless, at a time when the political debate that confronts us is of the fundamental nature of what kind of government Americans want, Harvard students seem, by a certain measure, to be concerned with little more than upcoming finals and papers. Only a small segment of Harvard students are involved with the campus political organizations. Harvard-Radcliffe College Democrats and the two College Republican Clubs both draw an all-too-small fraction of undergraduates to their meetings and activities...
...going to do anything as long as an important segment of the community is very uncomfortable with the idea," says Jack P. Reardon Jr. '60, executive director of the HAA. "And I think it's especially important that the African American community feel reasonable about this. If they don't, it's not going to go anywhere...
Reardon said that the University will not go forward with the memorial "as long as an important segment of the community uncomfortable with the idea...