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Alice Walker ascended from the realm of mere literature after Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of her novel The Color Purple. The movie's huge commercial success -- and the controversy that arose over its portrait of black males -- ensured Walker's public renown as a woman with a cause, an author who, when she has a message, would rather write a book than call Western Union. Indeed, her poetry and fiction have always been, to some extent, polemical. Now that her potential audience has increased many times over, Walker, 45, has become more forthright about the burden of her prose...
...Success in Carrera's program brings a substantial reward. Under an agreement made with former Hunter College President Donna Shalala, students who graduate from high school and complete Carrera's program are guaranteed admission to Hunter. So far, 15 participants, teens and parents, have enrolled; Shavon Glover, a mother at 15, before she met Carrera, was the first. "I always had college in the back of my mind, but I didn't think I could do it," Glover says. "When I met Mike, everything started lifting...
Since his initial success at the Milbank Center, Carrera has expanded his program to include two other community centers in Harlem, one of which is in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. Carrera receives financial support from New York City's Childrens Aid Society and devotes many hours each week to fund raising from private as well as public sources. The cost for each teenager is about $1,500 a year, and the paid staff members are all indigenous to the community. "Most adolescent pregnancy programs are headed by white female social workers," says Cary Dixon, a 48-year-old black...
...uprising of the Vendee in which 400,000 died -- the less said the better. The play-it-safe politics of the commemoration is aimed at creating at least the illusion of ideological harmony, the same strategy that has sparked Mitterrand's recent political success. "We're not going to celebrate the guillotine," says Jeanneney. "Our mission is to emphasize the positive...
During each successful contest, Ward crafts a picture of the owner that makes her an extreme caricature of the capitalist class. Sitting in her luxury box seat, flanked by her lackey general manager and two servants clad in white dinner jackets with black bow-ties, she frets over the success of her ball club and sips a cool drink. She exudes the air of either a colonial plantation owner, who cannot squeeze any more productivity out of the slaves who are cultivating the fields, or a Roman emperor who condescendingly passes judgment over her subjects at a gladiator's match...