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...Waiting to Exhale sound track is a virtual Who's Who of divadom, as compiled by Houston and the album's producer-composer, Kenneth ("Babyface") Edmonds. Along with Houston, the album features numbers by such highly regarded R.-and-B. performers as Toni Braxton, Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige. Yet Houston more than holds her own, particularly on Why Does It Hurt So Bad, with its masterly balance of pop zip and soulful melancholy. She was an enthusiastic advocate of the idea that the album should feature only women--a popular concept these days, with such recent all-female...
...Muhamed Sacirbey suggested that tensions had grown within the Bosnian delegation. To escape the pressure, the Croatians flocked to the wide-screen TV in Packie's, a sports bar at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where they could watch the Chicago Bulls and root for the star Croatian forward, Toni Kukoc. "They are all sick of the confinement and the artificiality of it," said an American official...
...concerned that he does not have a full understanding of what it means to have the right to choose," said Toni K. Troop, president of Boston chapter of NOW. She said the organization was also concerned about Fried's views on issues of violence, access to legal services, health care, civil rights and women's rights issues...
...there's nothing public about [PBS]," Gingrich crowed to a roomful of like-minded enthusiasts in Washington's Capitol Hill Club last February. "It's an elitist enterprise. Rush Limbaugh is public broadcasting." Yeah, and so is Howard Stern--and Jenny Jones is Ken Burns, and Tom Clancy is Toni Morrison. The fact is that no system with as broad and loyal an audience base as PBS repeatedly garners can be called elitist. A national poll conducted for PBS by Opinion Research Corp. indicates that fully 84% of Americans want to see PBS funding maintained or increased and that...
Best class she took at Harvard: "Fiction by American Women of Color" because "it was the first time I had really been a minority" in a class. During a discussion of Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye," in which a young Black girl tears up a blond, blue-eyed doll, Butler was asked for her own reaction. "For the first time, I realized only two or three of us in the class were blond and blue eyed...It made me a lot more aware of stuff [that] you often take for granted...It made me open my eyes a little...