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...what he calls the "old days"--the late 1960s and early 1970s--financial aid was primarily for the poor. But as schools have become more competitive in the last decade, financial aid has become less and less of a tool to promote equality, he says...
...College of Cardinals to its full complement of 120 voting members. John Paul, having already named more saints than any other Pope, plans on Sept. 3 to declare two of his predecessors blessed. The elevation of John XXIII, hero of the progressive Vatican II initiatives of the early 1960s, will raise no hackles, but that of Pius IX, an oppressor of Jews in the mid-1800s, will. (The march toward canonization of another Pius--XII--has stalled in the face of renewed charges that he stood by silently during the Holocaust.) John Paul also plans to bestow sainthood...
DIED. JEAN HOWARD, 89, starlet, socialite and photographer of filmdom's glamour set from the 1930s through the 1960s; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Her pictures of the bygone era appeared in a 1989 book, Jean Howard's Hollywood...
...citizens have flooded the bureau's Washington headquarters with messages of angry protest. In an age of computer hackers, cell-phone eavesdroppers, Internet "cookies" and surveillance satellites, much of the public lacks faith, it seems, in the bureau's guarantee of total confidentiality. Like draft-card burners from the 1960s, some privacy-loving Americans have even vowed to pay the government's $100 penalty for nonfiling rather than satisfy Uncle Sam's Big Brotherish curiosity about such matters as whether their home has a working flush toilet...
...Roman Catholic church can't find a politically correct Pius. Since the 1960s, it has synchronized the canonization process of liberal hero Pope John XXIII and conservative favorite Pius XII, but recently Pius' "cause" has stalled. The Vatican won't say why, but Jewish groups' critiques of the Holocaust-era Pope may have played a role...