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...looking for something whichdistinguishes you from the stack of resumes," hesaid...

Author: By Christopher R. Mcfadden, | Title: Panel Talks of Careers For Minorities in D.C. | 3/1/1994 | See Source »

...process of redistricting must change. No political party's leadership should be able to stack the deck in its own favor. The redrawing of the political map must be achieved impartially. The Bureau of the Census can do the job. Districts should 1) encompass populations of roughly similar sizes within each state, 2) be contiguous and "star-shaped" (a line can be drawn from the center to any point on the border without exiting the district), 3) respect town borders whenever possible and 4) be drawn with the same basic criteria in every state...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: The Crucial Maps | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...year-old minister's poignant admission that he could have sex with his wife only by pretending that she was a man. Bob Hawks, a film exhibitor in his fifties who is also the documentary's most wonderful raconteur, discusses a teenage fascination with the young Robert Stack's "perky nipples," Hawks provides a marvelously detailed Proustian picture of gay bars in the `50s. He remembers "the thrill of having wool pants on that itched, and a white collar shirt that cut into your neck, and you were slow dancing with a stranger, and you were...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: `Sex Is...' Appealing | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

...garage in San Marino, California, and out steps a slightly built man with graying hair, in suit and tie, just back from work. He calmly surveys the workout equipment he has set up in the adjacent parking slot: two heavy bags and a pair of rigs, one supporting a stack of five 1-in.-thick pine boards, the other a stack of three. Suddenly he explodes into violence. His right foot lashes out, delivering a blow that cleanly severs the five stacked boards. Without missing a beat, he slams his right fist into the stack of three, also sundering them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battler for Gene Therapy | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

...didn't take the second vote to try to stack the elections in any way, but in order to make it fair as possible," Joan Cheng said...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: AAA Candidates Call for Re-Vote | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

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