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...Victims' Club of America because of what happened to their ancestors. I don't for a minute say that if you're black with kinky hair you have the same chance as a blue-eyed blond in America. But racial quotas and set-asides are tearing us apart. They breed white resentment and the suspicion of black inferiority, and they haven't kept pace with our multiethnic society." Connerly, who is of African, French, Irish and Choctaw descent, is married to an Irish-American woman; their son is married to a Vietnamese American. "What racial box on the university admission...
...flaming heart--cold brain and firm command Of nerve and sinew, blotting out all fears, The will to win beyond the final stand, These are the factors in each hour of need That mark the pathway of the Winning Breed...
Thoroughbred training and quarter-horse training are obviously a breed apart, but the latter requires a horse sense and work ethic that Baffert put to good use once he decided to run with the big boys. His first major success came with Thirty Slews, who won the Breeders' Cup Sprint in 1992. By 1995 he was the leading trainer at Santa Anita. At last year's Kentucky Derby, he saddled Cavonnier, who lost by a nose to Grindstone--trained by Lukas. "I actually thought we had the race won," says Baffert, "so when they posted the results, it felt like...
...never been one for the Greenpeace style of throwing your body in front of baby seals," said Avery W. Gardiner '97, former chair of the Student Advisory Committee of the Institute of Politics. "But I think people are realizing that activism [combined with] a spirit of cooperative action will breed success."CrimsonMelissa K. CrockerLAMELLE D. RAWLINS '99 is the first female president of the Undergraduate Council...
...buying better cuts of meat, says the butcher, but driving an extra 100 miles to get a better car deal; saving money on toilet paper at Wal-Mart--"I never did that in the '80s," says a local businessman--so they have extra to spend on a better breed of golf club. The deli owner was confident enough to start her own business, but is worried enough that she doesn't yet dare raise the price of a liverwurst above $3.50. The local bankers see people with as much as $70,000 in charge-card debt, which could...