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NEW YORK (AP)—Alter 84 shows and 192 people in the hot seat,
“Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” had a black contestant sitting across
from Regis Philbin for the first time.
Sunday’s program marked something of a milestone for television’s
most popular program, which has been criticized for its overwhelming
number of white male players and even issued an on-air plea for more
diversit}’ in February.
Steven Maurice Chirk, a Harvard-educated surgeon from Aiken, S.C.,
walked off with $32,000 after guessing wrong on a question that could
have earned him $250,000.
“To me. it shouldn’t be an issue and I think if I had been on in
November, it wouldn’t have been an issue,” Clark said in an inter
view Monday.
As the months wore on, though, the lack of black contestants had be
come an annoyance for the producers, who have slightly modified the
way the show selects contestants in order to minimize what are per
ceived as advantages for white men.
()nlv 26, or 13 percent, of the 195 people that havebeenk
seat through the end of Sunday’s show were women,acid
ABC.
Philbin took the unusual step on Feb. I of appealing io»(r|
minorit d the toll-free telephone number for a
fore that date, only 12 percent of^
tants were women; since then, it has been I percent. ABlET
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Clinton hosts traditional Easter e
Scott Vickers, a junior industrial distribution major, dunks on Mike Parker, a
sophomore business major, outside the Memorial Student Center. They were ad
vertising the one army Hoops Millennium 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament being
held on April 29 to benefit the United Way. Registration is open through April 25.
WASIIINGTON (AP) President Clinton
shook hands with an adult-sized Faster bunny.
Cameras and camcorders were rolling. First
lady Hillary Rodham Clinton greeted tens of
thousands of children, scampering after eggs
on the South Lawn.
But not even the president could command
the attention of Colby Veirs at the White I louse
Monday for the 122nd Easter Egg roll. The 7-
) ear-old from Bethesda. Md.. was intent on
wrapping a strand of fake Easter basket grass
around his forefinger — so tightly that his fin
gertip fumed reddish-blue.
“Look, mom,’’ he told Man Claire Veirs,
who glanced at his finger and then hoisted his
little brother. I lunter, up high enough to see the
president blow a whistle to officially begin the
egg roll.
Clinton
the egg-
re readv.
“Are they ready over there'
asked, peering across the lawn i
rolling lanes. “Wave your hand ifyc
All right. On you mark, get set...”
The White House egg roll, which attracted
about 30,000 children and members of their
families, has been an American tradition since
the mid-19th century.
The celebration took place on the Capitol
grounds until 1878 when it was mov ed to the
White House by Lucv Hayes, wife of President
Rutherford B. Hayes. It’s been held annually,
except during World War I and World W ar IL
Children, many in their Sunday finest, tot
ed Faster Fgg baskets. Parents wore pink
bunny ears.
The White House dyed 7,200 hard-boiled
eggs for the event. Another 2,500 eggs were
cooked for children to decorate.
Reading was the theme of this;;
roll, which was cybercast on the I
Transportation Secretary Rodney Sit
The Little Engine That Could. M.
Row ling read from her Ham Potter;;
book series.
Across the lawn, children ano
mobbed Attorney General Janet Rc
spent long hours ov er the weekendi
the reunification of Cuban boy. Ek
lez. with his father.
When asked w hether reading fe
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than mediating the Flian case, Renoni
"It is.” But when pressed tocommeiti
on the case, Reno quietly replied, Tmj
casing on the kids right now.”
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