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...admissions policies, it will nonetheless put a chill on many of those nontraditional efforts, while public schools nationwide will have to throw out the traditional ones as well. "The court has shown a distinct distaste for race-based remedies," says A.E. Dick Howard, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. "No matter what it decides in the Michigan cases, it has made it harder across the board to have affirmative action...
...dangled an offer to move his extended family from Pakistan to reduce the risk of al-Qaeda retaliation--and a threat to declare him an enemy combatant, which might mean years of pretrial detention. Soon afterward, law-enforcement officials tell TIME, Faris was brought to a safe house in Virginia. With agents directing and monitoring his every communication, Faris sent messages to his bosses via cell phone and e-mail. "He was sitting in the safe house making calls for us," says a senior Administration official. "It was a huge triumph for law enforcement...
...calculus class at Bell last year, struggled with the questions on the AP exam that required the use of a graphing calculator in part, she says, because she hadn't learned how to use one in class. But last year when she repeated calculus at George Mason University in Virginia, she passed...
...unwanted e-mails sent to or from any computer in the state. It would also require spammers to use only opt-in lists for their targets. The problem? It's just one state, and 28 other states have entirely different antispam laws on the books. (The toughest belong to Virginia, which requires criminal penalties for major-league spammers...
...DIED. Donald Regan, 84, former U.S. Treasury Secretary and White House chief of staff; in Williamsburg, Virginia. Forced to resign in 1987 because of the Iran-contra scandal, Regan, who had previously headed Merrill Lynch, was the driving force behind the Ronald Reagan Administration's tax cuts and downsizing of government. After his resignation, Regan wrote an autobiography, which described his frequent clashes with First Lady Nancy Reagan and revealed her consultations with astrologers...