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...case seems a pale echo of the fiery debates over diversity in the early '90s, when, for example, a Harvard student erected a swastika to protest a classmate's Confederate flag. Today, says UCLA director of residential life Alan Hanson, "multiculturalism isn't really a hot topic." But the growth of religious conservatism could rekindle the flames. "Today you have a larger interest among students in religion, whether it's Orthodox Judaism or...Fundamentalist Christianity," says David Merkowitz of the American Council on Education. One survey indicates that half of freshmen identify themselves as Protestant, up from a third...
...Security Adviser Samuel Berger tells the Senate campaign finance probe that he saw no evidence of "extraneous" influence on Clinton foreign policy (AllPolitics) ... As the clean-up operation begins to remove the flowers from Kensington Palace, new questions are being asked about Diana's death (People Daily) ... An Indian flag covers Mother Teresa's body as her adopted country salutes the Calcutta nun (Reuters) ... The doctor who wrote the definitive book on Redux has denounced the weight-loss drug (TIME Daily) ... Diet pill problems notwithstanding, Americans are living longer (Reuters), especially middle-aged mothers (TIME Daily) ... And more of them...
...week after Diana's death between the Queen and Prince Charles, over the nature of her funeral. London's Channel 4 News said late Monday that Queen Elizabeth wanted a private funeral that would have excluded the Princess' body from Royal palaces, and refused to fly the flag at half-staff over Buckingham Palace. Prince Charles fought in his former wife's corner by resisting his mother's wishes, and a heated battle ended in his favor after Tony Blair sent in mediators. The Royals claim "the whole story is rubbish," although Channel 4 ? a respected high-brow network...
...palace also bowed on the issue of the Buckingham Palace flag, announcing that the Union Jack would fly at half-staff there on Saturday in place of the monarch's personal flag that the Queen would not lower. The length of the funeral parade route through London has been tripled to accommodate the anticipated huge crowd...
...wish to be quoted in the same article with Steve.) "When we grew up, it was simple to rebel," he recalls. There were so many rules to be broken. When he wore jeans to a high school assembly in 1963, violating the dress code, "it was like burning the flag." He put on a tie-dyed shirt and was beaten up for it. His long hair got him pulled over by a sheriff who threatened to cut it off. "That was wrong," he says of the law officer's bullying. "It was easy to rebel against that. In those days...