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Neil L. Rudenstine, Bok’s successor as president, publicly criticized the 1996 ruling of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case Hopwood v. Texas, which forbade the University of Texas from using race as a factor in law school admissions...
When you Trek Nepal's Annapurna Circuit you get ... Bragging Rights and Beauty Rest When I told my boss about my holiday-trekking plans, he grimaced and proclaimed, "It's so dirty." When I informed my friends that I was going to spend 15 days hiking 300 kilometers around one of the Himalaya's most iconic mountain massifs, they told me I was "hard-core." They were all wrong: I discovered that hiking Nepal's Annapurna circuit is almost luxurious?and you can do it alone...
...obtained my trekking permit, hired a porter and arranged transport to the trailhead, which took six hours to reach. Once on the trail, I could hike at my own pace and choose where I wanted to sleep, which was usually the place with the best apple pie. The Annapurna circuit's nickname, in fact, is the "Apple Pie Trail," in homage to the local specialty and the easy trek...
...straight into a riot of civilization. Cars honked, Hindi music blared, and it was hard to distinguish where the garbage dumps ended and the streets began. Friends back home may have thought I was roughing it, but I can affirm that life on the Annapurna circuit is more than civilized...
...unwillingness to articulate his views on contentious political issues has left some uncertainty as to his eligibility for a lifetime appointment to a federal bench as influential as the D.C. Circuit bench...