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...Education School was the lone deanship that Rudenstine had named a Black woman to fill. But Columbia Teachers College Professor Linda Darling-Hammond backed out of that position for personal reasons earlier this summer, and Rudenstine named a white male, Professor of Education Jerome T. Murphy, to replace...
...sitting in rows in dull beige uniforms, like nothing so much as condemned POWS, fending off questions about why their team consisted of 40 men and zero women ("Their records are not strong." "Women are not interested in sports"). On the other side of the room, Enos Mafokate, the lone black member of South Africa's equestrian contingent, was red-eyed with exhaustion and excitement. "For 30 years," he said, "I have dreamed of this. When they told me I was going to the Games, I could not open my mouth for three hours. I could not even move...
...eagled against a police car, pushed around. It's not a "responsible" fantasy (fantasies seldom are). It's not even a very creative one. In fact, the sad thing about Cop Killer is that it falls for the cheapest, most conventional image of rebellion that our culture offers: the lone gunman spraying fire from his AK-47. This is not "sedition"; it's the familiar, all-American, Hollywood-style pornography of violence...
Shooting the spots sometimes involved tricky logistics, as TIME promotion director Timothy Nix discovered when he supervised one illustrating our cover story on the beleaguered Colorado River and its effect on the nation's water system. The ad required a lone trout to swim in a tank as the water level rose and fell. Tim reports that 200 fishy hopefuls were brought in from a trout farm, under the care of a trained trout wrangler. Dozens had to be auditioned before the admakers found a star fish capable of navigating the ups and downs of the role. "I kept saying...
...beach itself is nearly deserted. Only a few sunbathers and lone man and his metal detector were around on a recent weekday afternoon. A favorite pastime of the local seems to involve eating lunch in their parked cars as they gaze out at the sand. Not quite "Beach Blanket Bingo...