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...fact that I didn't like the draft atHarvard didn't mean I liked it for people inRoxbury," said Michael L. Mavroidis...
Clint Eastwood didn't hate the novel. What he loathed were several early-draft screenplays based on it. They tried to flesh out Robert James Waller's slight narrative with flashbacks and fantasy sequences, and one of them even imposed a conventional happy ending on it, in which the most famously sundered lovers of our time, roving photographer Robert Kincaid and farm wife Francesca Johnson, were reunited in Katmandu. Eastwood also fell into mutually uncompromising disagreement with the original director, Bruce Beresford, about casting the feminine lead. He told the producers he would move on if these problems weren...
...rough draft of President Clinton's officialpronouncement on affirmative action"leaves the bulk of those programs unchanged," according to James Carney, TIME White House correspondent. As such, the sweeping review ordered up by the President in response to Republican attacks on affirmative action seems likely only to backfire. Designed to assuage the opposition to affirmative action restrictions (a position characterized in the draft as"white male resentment"), while reassuring traditional liberal constituencies, the report, says Carney, "is a lose-lose proposition - the starting point for Republican attacks." President Clinton is expected to unveil the findings in a major speech several...
Sure enough, the issue resurfaced once more at a Faculty Council meeting two weeks ago. The council did not draft a proposal but decided to gather more information and discuss the problem--again--in the fall...
...abandonment of a war that should shake the nation's psyche but the abandonment of the young people who fought it. While at home in the U.S. politicians decided policy and some people prayed for low draft numbers, others in Vietnam were praying just to stay alive. Whether the war was right or wrong meant nothing if you were in the middle of a firefight. Trapped in war's reality, young men lost more than arms and legs; they lost pieces of their soul. We all realized at some point that we would never fully return home again...