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...evident in her handling of affirmative action. O'Connor was as allergic to quotas as any true conservative, but she found it acceptable for government to consider race as one of many factors in making decisions. In the late 1980s she wrote an opinion striking down a law in Richmond, Va., that tried to boost the minuscule percentage of city contracts going to minority-owned firms. And in the '90s, O'Connor voted against redrawing the lines of congressional districts to benefit minorities. But she was also the Justice who cast the fifth and deciding vote in a 2003 decision...
PROMISE Undeniably a great organizer, he built the Army of the Potomac and filled it with confidence. He then hatched a plan to capture Richmond from the south...
Four-year-old Kevin White of Richmond, Calif., is enjoying that all-American event, a birthday party at McDonald's. Wearing a Ronald McDonald birthday hat and clutching a fistful of French fries, he gets ready to whisk down the slide in the restaurant's kiddy playground, while his mother Cynthia stands by with envy. "One day I hope that Kevin will appreciate my cooking," she says. "But for now, I can't even compete with a Big Mac and fries...
...Konstantin Chernenko and Jean Dubuffet, both of whom died in 1985, you should have placed Philippine democracy. I have been waiting to read of its demise in TIME's Images since 1972, when President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in that "bastion of democracy in the Pacific." Gus Fernando Richmond Hill...
...dubious distinction of paying the highest increase on record may belong to Specialty Systems Inc., a Richmond, Ind., company that specializes in removing asbestos from buildings. Insurers are so terrified of anything having to do with asbestos that they canceled Specialty's policies three times between November 1984 and last April, though the nine-year-old company has never been sued. Because customers demand proof of insurance before they will give Specialty any business, the company wound up buying a $500,000 policy from the Great American Insurance Co. of Cincinnati, on which it will pay at least...