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...DONALD REGAN, 84, former head of Merrill Lynch who left to become Ronald Reagan's Treasury Secretary and then chief of staff; of cancer; in Williamsburg, Va. The burly exMarine spent 35 years at Merrill Lynch before joining the Reagan team, where he was a prime mover behind the landmark 1986 tax reforms. When he became chief of staff, he ran into trouble; the Iran-contra scandal blew up on his watch, and he tangled with the First Lady, who helped speed his ouster after a year. He retaliated with a memoir, For the Record, that disclosed Nancy's reliance...
...decision in the Michigan cases had been widely anticipated. After the landmark 1978 Bakke case, in which the Supreme Court ruled that schools could practice affirmative action for the goal of having a diverse student body, but could not use quotas, affirmative action opponents have consistently chipped away at the policy. The Supreme Court has struck down a variety of set aside programs that gave special benefits to minority businesses over the last two decades, and the five justices that normally make up the Court's more conservative majority have been sharply critical of most considerations of race...
...million (compared to whale-related tourism's estimated $1.5 billion) - agreed for the first time to establish a conservation committee. Its task: to advise the IWC on potential threats to marine mammals from pollution, sonar gear, ships, global warming - even whale watching itself. Environmentalists see it as a landmark step. "They're moving out of the old mindset - that everything has to be killed - into the more embracing notion that the earth is getting smaller and smaller and we have to treat all our resources with more care," says Patricia Forkan, executive vice president of the Humane Society International...
...Today, sitting in their landmark Kowloon studio?where the walls are covered with two decades of messages from fans?the boys from Beyond are in an affable and unapologetic mood. "It's a technique to be able to strike a balance between rock and commercial music," says Paul Wong, the band's 39-year-old guitarist. "Once you decide to produce albums, undergrounders call you rock traitors, but the public doesn't even know who you are yet. Every day you're struggling between commercialization and your dream, which we had to remember very clearly. [That dream] was to change...
...result was a landmark book that argued that women are not behind men in their moral reasoning, as Kohlberg had suggested, but that they just approach ethical dilemmas differently...