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...decisions, and work to keep higher education inclusive while staying within the letter of the law. But opponents of affirmative action are crying foul. It's hard for anyone to object to some of the milder efforts--like letters of encouragement to minority applicants. But Ward Connerly, the California regent who wrote Proposition 209, argues that many of the ideas being proposed in California, like reducing the academic track, are "designed to be proxies for points"--ways of tipping the scales without engaging in the kind of blatant favoritism struck down in Georgia...
Vincent Synan, dean of religion at Regent University, contends that Jakes and Billy Graham are the only two evangelists who could pack Atlanta's 79,000-capacity Georgia Dome (both have), "but Graham has 50 years of fame and a great organization." Says Lee Grady, editor of the religious magazine Charisma: "We talk about someone being anointed. Jakes knows he's got a special trust...
...taken a series of tragedies for public officials to begin to notice. In California regulators moved to revoke the licenses of nine facilities run by Regent Assisted Living Inc. after Lucille Giroux, 79, bled to death in her rocking chair at Sunnyside Court in Fremont. According to the state's investigation, she twice pressed her call button and no one came; Regent says no call for help was made. In Falls Church, Va., a 93-year-old woman was killed in May when, after she fell down outside, her facility's van ran over her. Lawmakers in Virginia...
...prosecution. The facts that Paras and his family emerged from the shooting spree virtually unscathed, and that it is his branch of the family that will benefit the most, have prompted much public frustration. Indeed, if the Crown Prince dies, as his critical condition presages, Paras' father--the current regent--is next in the line of succession, which means Paras would become Crown Prince and, eventually, King...
...Nepalese are left with a comatose King who killed his father and a regent with a high-handed disdain for the democratic process. The Shah dynasty, proprietors of a 250-year lineage, has been virtually eradicated in a few bursts of gunfire. Nepalese are still pondering the gruesome narrative of the massacre. But their longer-term question is: Into what kind of society is our mountain kingdom evolving...