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Critics of the university's admission process insist they also favor diversity. That usually sounds strained coming from affirmative-action foes. But Cohen points to his own lengthy progressive resume. He once headed the A.C.L.U.'s Ann Arbor chapter and was known during the Vietnam War era as "the long-hair guy" for his work lobbying public schools to let students with shoulder-length hair attend class. He has long given money to the A.C.L.U. and the N.A.A.C.P., and still does, he says. But Cohen says he parted ways with the civil rights mainstream because he wants to see diversity...
...Ann Clurman, a partner at Yankelovich's MONITOR generational study, compares the new trend to the rumble on the tracks before the train is seen. "It'll take years for the numbers to catch up, but attitudinally, this generation is marrying younger," she says. All this cuts against the image pinned on Gen Xers at the start of the decade. The idea was that they were aimless and depressed, but the reality seems to be that they are overprogrammed and extraordinarily stressed. They are the first generation to be scheduled from their earliest play dates; to view school, even grade...
Hooray for Hillary! We need more 50-year-old cover girls. NANCY KING REAME Ann Arbor, Mich...
...family-unfriendly environment that forces us to place limitations on our careers before we have even had a chance to start them. JACQUELINE KARAMANOS Ann Arbor, Mich...
...DIED. ANN DEVROY, 49, determined, shrewd, indefatigable Washington Post White House correspondent; of cancer; in Washington. Her dogged professionalism in covering four Presidents won Devroy the admiration of her peers and prompted one subject, George Bush, to write admiringly to the ailing reporter, "I want the same toughness that angered me and frustrated me to a fare-thee-well at times to see you through your fight...