Wag the Dog, 964
Wages.SeeIncome; Real wages
Waiting to Exhale(McMillan), 540
Walcott, Louis Eugene.See
Farrakhan, Louis
Walford, Roy, 102
Wall Street (New York).SeeNew
York Stock Exchange; Stock
market
Wallace, Christopher.SeeNotorious
B.I.G., The
Wallace, David Foster,903-904
Wal-Mart, 268,904-905
Walt Disney Company, 95, 673
Walton, Sam, 904
War films, 743
War on drugs, 506, 617
War Room, The, 961
Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio
(1989), 930
Warner, Brian, 552
Warner Bros., 908
Warner Bros. television network.See
WB television network
Warsaw Pact, 316
Wash, Martha, 574
Washington, D.C., 81
Washington, Denzel,905-906
Washington v. Glucksberg(1997), 823,
995
Water pollution,906-907
Watson, Bob, 83
Watson, Gregory, 875
Watson, James D., 436
Watson, Robert K., 49, 827
Watterson, Bill, 214
Watts, Quincy, 640
Waveform audio format, 256
Wayans, Damon, 446
Wayans, Keenen Ivory, 445
Wayne’s World, 600, 961
WB television network, 838, 885,
908
WBA.See World Boxing Association
WBC.SeeWorld Boxing Council
Weapons technology, 659, 755
Weather, 161, 608, 635, 661, 815
Weaver, Randy, 572, 730
Weaver, Vicki, 730
Web, the.SeeInternet; World Wide
Web
Web browsers, 456, 941
Web logs.SeeBlogs
Web portals, 943, 952
Webber, Andrew Lloyd.SeeLloyd
Webber, Andrew
Wegman, William,908-909
Weight loss, 328, 958
Weil, Andrew,909-910
Weinberg, Robert, 149
Weinberger, Caspar, 130
Welch, Thomas K., 741
Welfare reform, 137,910-912
Wells, John, 314
West Nile virus outbreak,912-913
Western Soccer Alliance, 783
Westerns (film), 240, 336, 881
Weston, Russell Eugene, Jr., 885
Wexner, Leslie H., 896
What’s Love Got to Do with It?, 961
When Harry Met Sally, 737
“When You Believe” (Carey and
Houston), 151
Where’s Waldo?franchise, 914
Whistle-blowers, 918
Whitacre, Mark, 47
Whitaker, Pernell, 116
White House attacks, 915
White people; violence against, 528
White supremacists, 277
White v. Illinois(1992), 991
Whitewater investigation, 191, 193,
197, 746, 804,915-917
Whitman, Christine Todd,917-918
Whole Foods Market, 340
Whren v. United States(1996), 994
Wiebe, Rudy, 519
Wigand, Jeffrey,918-919
Wilder, L. Douglas, 300,919-920
Wildfires, 608, 629
Wiles, Andrew, 330
Will and Grace, 838,920-921
Will Rogers Follies, The(Coleman,
Comden, and Green), 119
Williams, Jody, 614
Williams, Saul, 799
Williams, Serena and Venus, 802
Williams, Vanessa, 1011
Williams, Willie, 530
Willis, Bruce, 692
Wilson, August, 852
Winchell, Barry, 265, 431
Windows.SeeMicrosoft
Winfrey, Oprah, 112,921-922
Winslet, Kate, 858
Wireless telephones.SeeCell phones
Wisconsin v. Mitchell(1993), 11, 406,
992Wise, Kirk, 95
Witt, Katarina, 642
WNBA.SeeWomen’s National
Basketball Association
Wofford, Harris, 299
Wolf, Naomi, 96
Wolfowitz, Paul,922-923
Women; actors, 658, 722, 737-738;
art and, 55; astronauts, 109, 533;
athletes, 254, 402, 480, 763, 818,
953; biographers, 476; book clubs
and, 112; boxers, 116; breast
implants and, 774; college and,
285; diplomats, 25;
entrepreneurs, 810; fashion, 325;
filmmakers, 334; governors, 917;
journalists, 320, 476, 768; judges,
370; law professors, 416; literature
for, 163; low-wage jobs and, 927;
marketing consultants, 682;
military and, 830,923-925;
military officers, 141, 338; Million
Man March and, 575; mothers,
926; musicians, 315; neurologists,
109; physicians, 294, 624; poets,
30, 39; political appointees, 25,
713; politicians, 144, 191, 917,
929, 954; pornography and, 930;
poverty, 135; radio hosts, 749;
representations of, 163, 948; serial
killers, 944; singers, 150, 498, 537,
543, 583, 597, 631, 762; soccer
moms,784-786; talk-show hosts,
368, 921; theater and, 850;
violence against, 108, 479, 891,
929; workforce, 250, 447, 831,
925-929; writers, 30, 39, 379, 487,
519, 522, 540, 585, 688, 719, 789
Women’s National Basketball
Association, 92, 928
Women’s One World, 853
Women’s rights, 1, 192, 370, 675,
737, 923,928-931
Woods, Tiger,931-932
Woodstock concerts (1994, 1999),
933-935
Workforce; educational level, 312;
minority women in, 926; women
in, 250, 447, 831,925-929
Workforce Investment Act (1998),
988
Workplace; fashion, 154; Internet,
455; sexual harassment, 416
World Bank, 941XLI
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