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When a final effort to abate his cancer failed last week, the King came home. On Saturday, Abdullah was sworn in as regent with full governing authority. And on Sunday, as the kingdom mingled fears with prayers, Hussein died, leaving Jordanians to confront a future without the only ruler most of them have ever known...
Knowing full well that UC admissions procedures are governed by Proposition 209, the regents desire to send a signal to correct the opinion among some California racial minorities that the UC system does not want them. "We have tainted ourselves, rightly or wrongly, that we are adverse to diversity," regent William Bagle said. Carnesale chooses not to waste his time such fruitless symbolic gestures...
Although Hassan was plainly galled by his brother's decision, he quickly affirmed his loyalty to the new heir. Abdullah, designated regent while his father struggles to overcome non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, pledged to Hussein to "follow in your footsteps." U.S. officials privately called him "a chip off the old block," and Israel reacted without alarm. Many analysts regard the leadership turmoil in Jordan as less worrisome than that in other Arab states, where aging Kings and Presidents may soon give way to unfamiliar new rulers. Jordan's transition, says Anthony Cordesman, a Washington-based Middle East scholar, is only...
Last Friday night, more than 250 Columbia University students gathered in front of Faculty House on the university's campus in Manhattan. The students "chanted, held up posters, and jeered at conference participants as they entered," according to the Columbia Spectator. Inside, University of California Regent Ward Connerly--a leading opponent of affirmative action--was opening a two-day conference sponsored by a group advocating conservative education reform...
...Columbia student protesters and close ranks on our opponents. Certainly we Harvard liberals could use a lesson or two in civil disobedience; when Connerly spoke here in April, more noise was made about predictably insensitive comments by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 in introducing the regent than about Connerly himself. But would preventing the airing of prevailing conservative ideology do any good? If we are already in a minority, why further alienate the majority...