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...University of Arizona. Markus Rogan, who won two backstroke silvers to become Austria's first swimming medalist since 1912, was a Stanford team captain last season. Duje Draganja, who captured Croatia's first ever swimming medal with a silver in the 50-m freestyle, trains at U.C. Berkeley. And Coventry swims at Alabama's Auburn University. "I got to a point at home where I didn't have anyone to race," she says. Of course there were homegrown successes too. Back home in Warsaw, Poland's Otylia Jedrzejczak - who doubled her country's all-time pool haul by taking medals...
...Neither Jews nor Muslims top 4%. The category that has really jumped (from 8% to 14%) in the past decade is people who say they don't subscribe to any religious identification. Most of this group aren't Atheists, say scholars like Claude Fischer at the University of California, Berkeley. They still believe in basics like God, heaven and the bible as an inspired text, but prefer to think of themselves as spiritual rather than anything more specific...
...THAT'S THE CASE, SHOULD EVEN NON-PROTESTANTS MOURN ITS DECLINE? Not necessarily. By now, Protestantism's main nontheological message of radical individualism (or, as Berkeley sociologist Robert Bellah skeptically lampoons it, "You can be anything you want to be ... and if you don't make it, you have no one to blame but yourself") is deeply encoded in our national self-understanding--and even upon other religions, once they have spent a few generations here. "Catholics for choice?" Snorts John Fonte, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. "That's Protestantism." Not quite, but it is proof that whatever...
Merv Griffin, one of the honorary pallbearers, beamed his persistent humor at former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, telling how he had gone to London's Berkeley Square in search of the nightingales made famous in a song, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square. "But I only found pigeons," he said, chuckling. The very game Thatcher had arrived on board with the formidable hat she wore in Washington stowed in a sturdy box where it would remain for the rest of this journey of tribute, which she insisted on making despite a series of small strokes that had restricted her public...
...Governor Pat Brown was an amiably conventional liberal, who ran on his amiably conventional record. Reagan spotted and exploited a new issue: middle-class discontent over disturbances at the University of California and over the disturbances of the 1960s in general. He vowed to "clean up the mess at Berkeley." He won by a margin of almost 1 million votes out of 6.5 million...