Word: williamsons
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...that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other serious diseases in smokers"--appeared on the company's newly designed Web site (www.philipmorris.com) and is the second in a series of attempts by tobacco companies to give salience to health-related issues. Last year, the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company similarly redesigned its Web site to include a section on smoking and health hazards, and Tommy Payne, director of R.J. Reynolds, announced two weeks ago that his company planned to follow suit. Previously, Philip Morris had only gone so far as to claim that smoking...
...James M. Williamson...
...Williamson has been a member of local Democratic groups, tenants' rights groups, building preservation societies and other local activist groups. He wants to restore and extend affordable housing, put a one-year moratorium on commercial real-estate developments, renegotiate the "payment in lieu of taxes" agreement with Harvard, and look for a new city manager...
...protest over the underrepresentation of racial minorities, series creators have managed to add gay characters without getting much pressure to do so. One factor is that while coming out is still daunting to actors, there are a number of openly gay TV writers and producers, including Wasteland's Kevin Williamson (who worked a regular character's coming-out story line into Dawson's Creek last season), Oh Grow Up's Alan Ball and W&G's co-creator and co-executive producer Max Mutchnick. In addition, the pioneering DeGeneres is developing a show for CBS. The network says...
Mutchnick, Ball and Williamson are mum on how much of their characters' love lives audiences will see this season, and network execs' willingness to show air kisses among actual gay characters is vague and jittery at best. Weirdly, both Wasteland and Oh Grow Up have sent their gay men on dates with men who turned out to be straight. Williamson says Russell will have an active love life, but Ball and Mutchnick say they're not that interested in entering the bedrooms of their straight or gay characters. True, that's convenient. But in a sense, to focus...