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...sign held by a Red Sox fan at Wednesday's Fenway opener was accurate. "How quickly we forget," it read. We should not be so quick to dismiss the greed and corruption of the past with token gestures by the players and the owners...

Author: By Shira A. Springer, | Title: Baseball's Black Spots | 4/28/1995 | See Source »

Drake says that having ethnic minoritiesdistributed evenly across the houses just for thesake of diversity is a token move...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Diversity Concerns Affect Possibility Of Randomization | 4/21/1995 | See Source »

...While You Were Sleeping" is a fairy tale starring Sandra Bullock as the princess, Peter Gallager as the sleeping prince and Bill Pullman as the man Bullock eventually discovers is her true love. Bullock plays a token taker on the Chicago El who, while admiring Gallager from afar, has never spoken to him. She saves Gallager's life in an accident that leaves him temporarily in a coma. His family, clustered around his bedside, mistakes Bullock for his fiance (a fiction she encourages) and we're off in a movie thatTIME movie reviewer Richard Schickelsays recaptures the true spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES. . . "WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING" | 4/21/1995 | See Source »

When Lieut. Kara Hultgreen was killed last October while flying, many anonymous claims were made that she had not been qualified to pilot the F-14 and that she had been placed as a token pilot in order to improve the image of the navy after the Tailhook scandal. These claims gained such momentum that they spurred her mother to release her training records after her death. The record showed that Lieut. Hultgreen had been third in her F-14 piloting class and above average as a pilot. Soon afterwards the crash was labeled a mechanical failure. All the claims...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: Let Women Into the Citadel | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...have a clue. Here it's an American scholar researching the life of consumptive English poet Flora Crewe-in particular, whether Flora posed nude for an artist named Nirad Das while traveling in India for her health some 60 years ago, and if so, whether the portrait was the token of a love affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST END STORY | 3/27/1995 | See Source »

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