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...themed programming is, comparatively, the good news. Space aliens will have more network lead roles than Asians or Native Americans, while Hispanics, the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, are woefully underrepresented. "Networks have realized they can't stereotype us, but instead they ignore us," says Lisa Navarrete, spokeswoman for the Hispanic advocacy group the National Council of La Raza. And the networks' few efforts at Hispanic- or Asian-themed programs (see, or better yet don't, the misused Margaret Cho in All-American Girl) have been feeble and short-lived, feeding the belief that they're untenable. Norman...
...father's "accommodationist" approach toward the other party on Capitol Hill. And they are already suggesting that the son has got as far as he has only by using his father's connections: Tennessee's Lamar Alexander pointedly insists that the presidency cannot be "inherited." The Bush response, by spokeswoman Karen Hughes: "The Governor is very proud of his father, but he's a different person...
PAMELA ANDERSON LEE is best known for three things: videotaping her honeymoon and having large breasts. But last week, Lee's spokeswoman confirmed that the remarkably cantilevered actress had her breast implants removed. "She wanted her body to go back to its natural state," said Marleah Leslie. She stressed that Lee is unconcerned that the move may negatively affect her career, founded on Playboy pictorials and a role on Baywatch. It seems that interest in Lee's breasts does remain high. Ripley's Believe It or Not has requested the orphaned implants for an exhibit on beauty...
Several other were also arrested at Chuck's Millionaire Club in Detroit, Officer Collette Hill, a department spokeswoman, said yesterday...
There is no doubt that UNITE has had a hand in generating student awareness of the issue. Starting in 1997, UNITE sleuths began tipping off students to the locations of alleged sweatshop factories. Since then, UNITE spokeswoman Jo-Ann Mort says, it has merely "given [the students] moral support." Lately that support has included participating in--and paying for--regular conference calls among student leaders on different campuses and coaching students over the phone during sit-ins. In February the union sent two sweatshop workers on a five-campus tour to spur greater interest in the cause. Though many student...