Word: smith
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Cannon and Lee drew up a list of wealthy black men and asked them to bankroll the film. Among those who responded: actors Danny Glover, Wesley Snipes and Robert Guillaume; San Antonio Spurs basketball player Charles D. Smith; record producer Jheryl Busby; businessman Olden Lee; Black Entertainment Television chief Bob Johnson; and O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran. Each chipped in a minimum of $100,000. Because the film has been sold to Columbia Pictures for $3.6 million, their investment has already been repaid--with interest...
...area, the highest-paid president after Silber was Mary Maples Dunn, former president of Smith College, who earned $392,680 in 1994-95, including severance...
...Archie C. Epps III, is to have "two locked doors between students and the street"--two degrees of separation from the dangerous outdoors, and I'm not talking about lions, tigers and bears. "Even on well-lit paths and at appropriate times," Assistant Dean of the College Virginia Mackay-Smith '78 is quoted as saying, "all we can do is take steps to reduce the odds" of crime. Violence exists, common sentiment seems to dictate, and the most we can do is be informed and try to hedge our bets...
...Even on well-lit paths and at appropriate times, all we can do is take steps to reduce the odds," says Mackay-Smith...
...better new novelists, Indian or otherwise, is Sherman Alexie," says TIME's John Skow. His latest book, Indian Killer (Atlantic Monthly Press; 420 pages; $22), is a murderous urban legend not calculated to calm anyone's racial unease. Rage builds slowly in the heart of John Smith, a decent but troubled Native American who was taken from his 14-year-old Indian mother and adopted by well-meaning whites. Unreconciled to his new life but unable to speak a native language, and not even knowing which tribe his mother belonged to, he lives a solitary existence as a high-steel...