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...Duke are now casting about for a different breed of student. For years, the conventional wisdom has held that admissions committees rewarded all-around applicants (hence the whole generation of parents who've nourished their children on a steady diet of piano lessons, soccer games and pottery classes from birth). Today, writes Toor, "most of the students I meet on my travels are BWRKs. That's admissionsese for bright well-rounded kids. You know, the ones who do everything right. They take honors classes, study hard enough to be in the top 10 percent of their class, get solid 1350s...
Female ordination may be one of the last live bones of contention between the Roman Catholic Church and its U.S. flock. Most American believers have long gone their own way regarding birth control or abortion. But that is not an option when it comes to who celebrates the sacraments, even though 71% of American Catholics surveyed in a May 2000 Gallup poll favored having female priests. Still, Rome has not budged on the issue. In 1994 Pope John Paul II emphatically restated the ban in a pastoral letter, and the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared...
...politics (unsuccessful bids for Senate and House seats in California in 1982 and 1992) and at writing (a memoir, First Father, First Daughter, published in 1989). In 1981, she married her third husband Dennis Revell, a Sacramento lobbyist, and in 1994, adopted a daughter Rita, now 16, Ugandan by birth. In the 1990s, after her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and despite her own cancer, she began a relentless campaign to raise awareness and money for Alzheimer's research. Devoted to her father, she lived, she said, for his good days. "There's nothing nicer than the sound...
...Zheng He's trials began early. He was born in 1371, during the first years of the Ming dynasty, to an Islamic family in what is now the western province of Yunnan. (His name at birth was Ma He.) When the Ming armies moved into the region to wipe out the last vestiges of Mongol influence, 11-year-old Ma gained the attention of a conquering general. He was taken back to Nanjing, where he became a page to a young prince, known as Zhu Di. He was castrated and destined for a life serving with other eunuchs...
...beauty of the landscape and the ugliness of the people. I saw the hatred of the Han Chinese toward the Muslim minorities in western Gansu province. I saw a man being castrated and his house ransacked by a village family-planning brigade, because his wife had just given birth to a second child. Years of political oppression had left the Chinese people hostile and suspicious of outsiders. When I passed through remote villages, peasants would take me for a spy or a hooligan and report me to the police. I changed from being a traveler to a fugitive. The constant...