Word: barbarae
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...system can be divided, by general consensus, into three tiers of quality. At the top are Berkeley, UCLA and fast-rising U.C. San Diego. In the middle are Irvine, Davis and Santa Barbara. And then there are Santa Cruz and Riverside. The rollback of affirmative action has had only a small impact on admissions to U.C. as a whole--the eight U.C. campuses took 47,804 students this year, 7,439 of them black, Hispanic and Native American--only 27 fewer minority students than in 1997, the last year race was part of the process. But the new rules have...
...will. To explain why she thinks this, she proceeds to tick off the various religious moments that have poured out of the Governor's office: Bush's walk on the beach in Kennebunkport, Me., with the Rev. Billy Graham, after which Bush recommitted his life to Jesus Christ; Barbara Bush's whispering to her son during a sermon on Moses' leading his people, "He's talking to you, George"; his praying with nearly all the ministers in Texas these past six months...
...power seekers from all over the world. Wherever the Bushes congregated, they were rarely in family huddles; but when you watched, they seemed always to be connected--with a gesture, a glance, a joke from the podium, the President laughing at whatever lame jest one of the kids made, Barbara surveying everybody's manners...
...birthday, there seemed only the vaguest concession to mortality from the former President. When he was studying a landing site for his parachute jump near the Bush presidential library grounds at Texas A&M, he suddenly pointed to a small grove of trees near a pond. "That's where Barbara and I will be buried," he said. But his voice had its usual verve, as if to say that even that would be an adventure...
...less likely to split up, advocates of marriage classes contend that giving teens these tools early could eventually curb the divorce rate. Or at least dissuade sweethearts from marrying rashly. Ranging from a few weeks to a semester, the courses attract both singles and dating couples. Says author Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, co-director of Rutgers University's National Marriage Project: "In a consumer society where people have the facts about models of cars or refrigerators, it's only fair to give them the facts about marriage...