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...When Utah Senator ORRIN HATCH is bored by committee hearings, he scribbles out the song in his heart. The Republican is a prolific lyricist, and the proof is on his new CD with composer Janice Kapp Perry, My God Is Love. "I'm in a lot of miserable battles in the Senate," Hatch says. "Music lifts me out of that." His melody making led to a duet with Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. "We played our song Freedom's Light in the middle of negotiations on the child-health bill," says Hatch. "And Kennedy joined in. You know, he loves...
...continual progress in the expansion of women's sports; or 3) matching athletic opportunities with the interests and abilities of female students. According to a recent analysis by USA Today, only 9 of 107 Division I-A schools (Air Force, Navy, Army, Georgia Tech, Washington State, Virginia Tech, Kansas, Utah and Washington) meet the first criterion, so the two more subjective standards are most often applied. Because the OCR has never actually enforced Title IX by denying federal funds to noncomplying schools, wronged parties have had to resort to legal challenges. In recent years such high-profile schools as Colgate...
This year, the Dins also traveled to Utah during intersession and took their annual tour of Bermuda during spring break...
...maverick since he left his law practice in Pennsylvania, moved to Utah and later, in 1976, in his first try for elective office, beat an incumbent Senator, Hatch is accustomed to hearing complaints about himself from his more partisan colleagues. He has a 92% lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union, but nonetheless warns, "Anybody who tells me I've got to conform to their ideological point of view is going to be disappointed." Just last month Hatch, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, pushed through one of President Clinton's nominees to the federal bench despite objections from doctrinaire conservatives...
...team player," a Senate Republican grumbled. In a more public backlash, the conservative National Review recently dubbed Hatch a "Latter-Day Liberal," a play on his Mormon religion that Hatch found offensive. As the fray mounted, one of the bill's co-sponsors, Robert Bennett of Utah, dropped...