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...than pressure cookers like Berkeley or UCLA. It's a view some minority students at Irvine share. "A lot of my friends said, 'Berkeley, Berkeley, Berkeley,'" Tiger Dunams, a junior at Irvine, recalls of her college-choosing days. "I went there and looked at it, and it didn't seem like it was the thing for me. My friend goes to Berkeley, and she doesn't really meet people. I'm interacting with professors and graduate students, and I've met the chancellor. You can tell the faculty is really reaching out to students." Melissa Marchand says she chose Irvine...
...other sign that California is entering a new era on race is the attitude many young people seem to have about affirmative action. A lot of black and Hispanic students strongly opposed Prop. 209, and many still insist affirmative action is needed as much as ever. But the black science students gathered around the U.C. Irvine dining-hall table were confident that whatever the rules are, they can succeed under them. So is Elizabeth Lomeli. A Hispanic graduate of Santa Ana High School, she will attend Irvine in the fall after being rejected by UCLA. There...
Could the recovery be aborted, with an actual relapse? Not just yet. It would take several years of irresponsible borrowing to create the conditions for a repeat of 1997. Such things can be arranged, but the prospect does not seem imminent...
...decade in which a bull market and initial public offering mania have made millionaires seem commonplace, we have a financial villain whose outsize chicanery and supersize embezzlement may be a match for our gaudy times. Martin Frankel, 44, a.k.a. David Rosse, a.k.a. Eric Stevens, accused of absconding with as much as $335 million through a bewildering web of insurance companies, bogus investment funds and phony charitable organizations, was, in his own charmingly inept manner, pursuing a twisted but very '90s version of the American Dream...
...small minority," notes Johns Hopkins sociologist Andrew Cherlin. Adults also tend to read too much into children's superficial gestures. A five-year-old who wants to dress like Posh Spice still wants to be a kid; after all, only kids get to play dress-up! And if kids seem to be growing up faster than they used to, the fault may lie partly with adults, especially some of those in the entertainment business. Says Nickelodeon president Herb Scannell, who commissioned the poll: "One of the problems we have in this industry is we make assumptions: kids don't want...