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...firms have been standouts in aiding the disabled to do their jobs. Marriott International of Bethesda, Md., has long been recognized for its efforts. One compelling reason for the company's stance: chairman J.W. Marriott Jr.'s son Steve, a Marriott vice president of employment marketing, is hearing and sight impaired. But Marriott executives emphasize that the policy has deeper roots than that. "Working with all people has just become a part of our corporate culture," says Brendan Keegan, Marriott's executive vice president of human resources. "We have found that people with disabilities are highly motivated and dedicated, with...
...eyebrows. You can pretty much imagine them in action when he told people how he got seriously involved with the camera, a development he liked to explain by way of a story he heard from Isadora Duncan, the famous dancer. For a long time she couldn't bear the sight of the pianist whom her rich lover had hired as her accompanist. One day she and the luckless musician were riding face-to-face in a carriage. Suddenly it pulled up short, and she was flung into his arms. "I stayed there," she told Brassai. "I understood...
...Angeles. The Cree-Cherokee actor and activist, who appeared in 100 films, struggled for decades before achieving celebrity with a role in a historic 1971 public-service spot for Keep America Beautiful. (Later he made a sequel.) As the American Indian who sheds a tear at the sight of a landscape littered with garbage and polluted by smoke, Cody brought the nonprofit group unprecedented attention and support. In 1996 a New Orleans newspaper alleged he was of Italian descent--a charge Cody vigorously denied...
WASHINGTON: Is history supposed to be this boring? Four House managers have had their turn in front of the Senate jury, and there's been nary a revelation in sight -- where were the "nuggets" that James Sensenbrenner promised us? Where, even, was the "cheap mystery" that the White House scorned? Only hours into the case against the President, the networks were switching back to soaps and prosecutors had a dilemma: convincing the jury that they need to hear more of the same. "It's kind of a Rodney King tape problem," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "This drama...
...could tell over some egg rolls and a plate of chicken-fried rice--with Asians and fellow Jews. I'm guessing from the icicles on my nose that it was damn cold outside, so the crooked sign hanging in the window, "Yenching--Open Until 11," was a most welcome sight. And in the warmth of the restaurant, drinking hot tea and reading the New York Times in the company of others for whom Jesus's birthday is simply another occasion to go to the movies, I knew that staying in Cambridge over the break had been the right decision...