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Recent legislative changes in California and the Supreme Court's refusal to hear Californian and Texan appeals on the issue have placed increasing pressure on universities that use race, gender and ethnicity as part of their admission criteria...
...difficult role and required more voice than he actually had, and he had personal problems." Rosekrans vaguely remembers Applewhite's handing him a letter from a psychiatrist before withdrawing from the production. Thus, through crumbling ambition and the denial of desire, the easy affability of a young Texan from Spur, who loved to perform in lavish productions like Oklahoma! and South Pacific, was transmogrified into the troubled charisma of a cult master in Rancho Santa Fe, California, one who last week led his 38 followers on a fatal comet chase...
...belief is famously privatized, and reality, as in some dumbed-down version of Emerson, is often regarded as a vanity plate to be custom-made. In the privileged town of Santa Barbara, California, where I sit, the hills are alive with the sound of mantra--from John-Roger, the Texan guru of Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, down the road; from the New Age preacher Marianne Williamson, closer to downtown; and even from the radio station on which I heard last week a minister speak rabidly of the Second Coming and Foxe's Book of Martyrs...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Voters in the district know me...I've been here. Where's [Bill Phelps] been? He's a certified Texan...
Harrison, a fifth-generation Texan, gave Martin Frost a run for his money in 1994 and is waging a similar attack this time: blasting Frost for supporting higher taxes and more government regulation and for his ties to labor unions. Though he is an adept fund raiser, Harrison is running against the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, who has spent his entire term raising money as part...