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Last year Zimmerman alone tallied a school record 101 goals while Davis and fellow senior utility man Marty Edlund added their own offensive punch. In addition, 13 of the players convened in southern California this summer for a week of intensive training. Evidenced early on during preseason, the overall fitness level has also increased significantly from last year...
Higher education will also endure the first case to seriously challenge the Supreme Court's 1978 ruling in the University of California v. Bakke, the legal foundation for college affirmative action programs...
This case is only part of a national trend. Advocates of affirmative action have seen setbacks across the country as institutions in California, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi have been forbidden from considering race as a factor in hiring and admissions...
...decades later, Americans have not crossed their Jordan. In fact, for all the effort to make the racial issue irrelevant, it has become more pervasive and indelible. Last week a California law forbidding the use of affirmative action in state programs went into effect; movements to pass similar laws are afoot in other states and in Congress. One harbinger of that change: at state law schools in Texas and California, the end of preferences has meant classes with single-digit numbers of blacks. And as the Supreme Court prepares for next month's new session, its most anticipated case...
Terrorists wreaked havoc on the World Trade Center in 1993. Could larger targets--the Wall Street financial network, Midwestern water supplies, California power grids--prove as susceptible? For almost a year, a presidential COMMISSION ON CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION has been quietly collecting intelligence reports and interviewing business executives and local officials to determine how vulnerable banks, telecommunications systems, utilities and transportation networks are to attacks from terrorists or cyberbandits...