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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three years ago, Dawson phoned the Shreveport branch of Louisiana State University, a tiny campus with about 4,000 students in the town where he grew up. He wanted to know how to make a donation. Chancellor Vincent Marsala remembers taking the call and assuming that because Dawson was an autoworker, the most he could give was a couple of hundred dollars. Marsala says he "nearly flipped" when Dawson wrote checks for $200,000--enough to fund 18 four-year scholarships...
...date, Dawson has also given $431,500 to Wayne State University in Detroit, $230,000 to the United Negro College Fund and a few hundred thousand dollars more to various community colleges and churches. All he asks of the schools is that they use his money to give scholarships to the most deserving students, regardless of race. "If I was to do anything with my money other than help some of these kids begging to go to school," he says, "I'd be throwing it away...
Dawson has received an honorary degree from Wayne State, plus a Trumpet award for philanthropy from Turner Broadcasting System (owned by the same parent company as TIME). He shrugs at such honors. "I just want to be remembered," he says, "as an individual who tried to do some good." His mother would be proud...
...natural blonds. And it's spreading from trend-conscious Manhattan and Beverly Hills to middle American towns like Madison, Wis. Michael Nowland, a stylist at Madison's Vogue Hair Co., says a third of his male clients have tips, a look he has seen on a legislator at the state capitol as well as Mark Koehn, a 43-year-old local-news anchor. "You're seeing it in offices, and I don't really think this is a fad," Nowland says. "It's men evolving into the same degree of fashion rights that women have...
...whose members have known one another and played together for a decade in some cases. They won the Olympic gold medal in 1996, and some, including Akers, were around in 1991, when the team won the inaugural World Cup, held in China, where the event apparently was kept a state secret. Indeed, the team barely played the next year because U.S. Soccer couldn't afford to pay anyone...