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...Some editors, for example, simply assume that gay and lesbian journalists are too scarce to be important. "In this newsroom there're so few of them, they're not a factor," said Norman Bell, managing editor of the Tacoma Morning News Tribune. Others decline to acknowledge gay staffers or solicit their views for fear of seeming discriminatory or of violating their privacy...
...discussion opened with Nadja B. Gould, a clinical social worker and research associate at UHS, talking about themes in the play. She then tried to solicit response from the audience members...
...Faculty Council member Mark Birkinshaw on Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence's new slide show, some form of which he will eventually use to solicit money during Harvard's upcoming fundraising drive, expected to be higher education's largest ever...
Elena Carroll, the regional director of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, said yesterday that she could not say for certain whether the men were authorized to solicit for the charity...
Executive producer Vin Di Bona, who got the idea for America's Funniest Home Videos from a popular Japanese TV show (from which he culls some clips), had to put ads in TV Guide and People magazine to solicit tapes for his first special last November. Now submissions are pouring in at the rate of up to 2,000 a day. The tapes are screened by an overworked staff of 15. Though labor-intensive, the show is a relative bargain to produce: even after giving away a $10,000 prize for the best scene each week, the program costs less...