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...going on here. The boy, Adam Marshall, is black; the girl, "Sam" Whitmore, is white. The Whitmore and Marshall families have been close for three generations, their lives as inextricably entwined as only TV can entwine. It is the sort of interfamily relationship that happens in real life only seldom and in television scarcely ever...
Supreme Court Justices seldom allow themselves to get caught in the rough-and- tumble of local politics. So eyebrows rose when a letter written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was used by archconservative Arizona Republicans to formulate a resolution proclaiming that the U.S. is a "Christian nation...
...orders of protection to shield themselves from such wrath. As those two tragedies illustrate, however, such orders are often no more than paper tigers. Although provisions vary from state to state, all the laws subject men who violate these court orders to fines or jail terms. Yet men are seldom arrested for violations -- short of murder -- unless they are on the premises when police arrive. Meanwhile, the courts, still uncomfortable with domestic violence and faced with crowded prisons, tend to deal leniently with offenders...
...wish to refute specific misunderstandings and false statements that appeared in the editorial. First, we never sponsored the Wellesley College Blind Date Banquet. Second, the production of A Chorus Line, which was attacked as an "unnecessary networking of a particular minority," provided much needed opportunities for Asian Americans who seldom get the chance to act. Asians are usually typecast and, thus, never get parts in traditional plays. The production finally allowed them to express their dramatic and musical talents...
...Seldom has a President felt obliged after only seven weeks in office to deny publicly that his Administration suffers from "drift" and "malaise." But that is precisely what George Bush did at a press conference last week, reciting a list of accomplishments ranging from the savings and loans bailout to proposals for curbing air pollution. "I think we're on track," the President insisted, adding somewhat wistfully, "A lot is happening. Not all of it is good, but a lot is happening...