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...conspicuously by his father's side in the days after Hussein's lymphoma announcement. Hassan's wife, Princess Sarvath, is said to be very ambitious for her son, as is Queen Noor for Hamzah. One palace insider speculates that despite Hussein's wishes, Hassan will name Rashid regent. His ascension could spark challenges from Hamzah or Ali, especially given that Rashid's Pakistani mother, like Abdullah's, is a non-Arab. "Anyone who assumes that the Hashemite family is united or will remain united about the succession issue is making a mistake," says the source...
...prophetically, as "troublemaker." The Nelson was added later, by a primary school teacher with delusions of imperial splendor. Mandela's boyhood was peaceful enough, spent on cattle herding and other rural pursuits, until the death of his father landed him in the care of a powerful relative, the acting regent of the Thembu people. But it was only after he left the missionary College of Fort Hare, where he had become involved in student protests against the white colonial rule of the institution, that he set out on the long walk toward personal and national liberation...
Even Calif. Regent Ward Connerly is offended of off-kilter account of black history. Our advice: take Af-Am 10 in the fall...
California Regent Ward Connerly strongly defended the state's abolition of racial preferences last night, a little more than a week after the first wave of admissions statistics revealed a significant drop in minority attendance at several prestigious state universities...
...Connerly was appointed to a 12 year term as a state regent. He began to study admissions trends among blacks and Asian Americans, noting that between 1989 and 1995, the number of African Americans who applied to the state's top universities had not changed, whereas Asian Americans applied in record numbers...