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...crash that killed Princess Diana may be off the hook. According to the Associated Press, France's state prosecutor has recommended that the courts not pursue manslaughter charges against the nine photographers and motorcycle driver who were following her Mercedes through the Paris twilight. Judge Hervé Stephan is expected to make a final ruling shortly before the two-year anniversary of the August 31 crash...
...camera men aren't totally in the clear yet. Stephan could still charge at least some of them with failing to aid an injured person, a crime in France. Then there's Mohamed Al Fayed, who claims that Diana and his son Dodi, who also died in the crash, were killed by conspirators who couldn't tolerate their love affair. Fayed doesn't believe the official story - that the wreck was the result of driver Henri Paul's excessive drinking beforehand - and may try to tie the photographers back to the deaths. But for the paparazzi long under a cloud...
...Stephan A. Thernstrom, Winthrop professor ofhistory, was the expert witness for the plaintiff."This indeed was still a quota system, andstudents were still being admitted or not admittedbased on their race," Thernstrom said in aninterview last night...
...though some Harvard professors--like Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom--call affirmative action the "official religion of...college and university presidents," many say it should no longer exist...
Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A.Thernstrom said, "The percentage ofAfrican-American students at the top of the LSATcurve is traditionally...