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Both themes (in that order) figure in Paul Elie's The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 555 pages), an ingeniously woven literary tapestry that tells the stories of four great American Catholic writers of the 20th century--Percy, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton and Dorothy...
...memoir, The Seven Storey Mountain, was a best seller in 1948), fathered a child out of wedlock before taking his vows; later, as a middle-aged hermit with a taste for bourbon, he had a brief love affair with a nurse. Walker Percy drank too much. Poor Flannery O'Connor, crippled by lupus, dead at 39, sometimes sounded alarmingly like a racial bigot...
...embraced the world as a social activist--a Catholic anarchist. Merton withdrew from the world to become a monk, memoirist, essayist. O'Connor lived surrounded by her famous peacocks on a farm in Milledgeville, Ga., her body restricted by disease, her imagination ranging with strange originality through a universe of her creation. Percy labored on, exploring the modern self that he considered essentially empty. Elie braids these four distinctive strands into a story, both inspiring and deeply intelligent, in which, as he says, "art, life and religious faith converge." --By Lance Morrow
...which race could continue to play an important but limited role in college admissions. While several of the justices have obviously made up their minds on race-conscious admissions policies, the Court’s “swing” justices, particularly Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, grappled with some of the thornier issues in these cases, whether it was determining appropriate time limits on admissions policies or trying to define the meaning of “meaningful numbers” of minority students on campus...
...still be used in higher education admissions, but probably only under very limited circumstances. Race will not disappear from the legal landscape, but its role could be seriously diminished. The alignment of the justices in the University of Michigan cases is still uncertain, with Justice O’Connor being the likely swing vote in a pair of 5-to-4 decisions. But, the impact of the Supreme Court’s decisions, regardless of whether the Court upholds or strikes down the Michigan affirmative action policies, is clear. The Court’s rulings will define the contours...