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UPHELD. By the SUPREME COURT, most of a Virginia law that permits the outlawing of cross burnings; in a 6-to-3 ruling; in Washington. While the court said that cross burnings intended to terrorize do not have First Amendment protection, it made a distinction (and inspired an outraged objection from Justice Clarence Thomas) by ruling that the 1952 statute was flawed because it did not take into account that some cross burnings could be purely political and thus deserving of constitutional protection...
...methods available to them. At the Inner Mongolia Thoracic Hospital, located in a squalid part of Hohhot in front of a garbage dump, a doctor eagerly opens an express-mail package sent by a colleague in Beijing. Inside it are pages of SARS research from the University of West Virginia, which points to antioxidants as a possible treatment for the mysterious pathogen. "Our preventive measures aren't sufficient," he says. "Beijing sent us instructions about how to prepare for this disease, but before we had time to get ready, the disease was upon...
...Black and White will have a chance to prove its strength once again as it takes on No. 9 Yale and No. 12 Virginia next Saturday at 7 a.m. on the Charles River, vying for the Case Cup. Radcliffe will also host No. 8 Brown on Sunday, making up the race cancelled due to poor weather conditions...
Some colleges and universities, in anticipation of one of these negative scenarios, have already jumped the gun by revisiting or dismantling their race-conscious admissions and financial aid programs. Virginia Tech, for instance, has waffled, abandoning its race-conscious admissions policy a few weeks ago, only to reinstate it recently after more careful consideration. Prodded on by anti-affirmative action groups, schools such as MIT and Princeton have decided to abandon or revise their minority-targeted scholarship and pre-college preparation programs, even though the burdens on non-minority students in these programs are minimal compared to a denial...
...Army has been good for the Johnsons, especially the women. Shana's sister Nikki left last week for officers' training school in Virginia. An aunt is a former Air Force nurse. (Two uncles and two cousins are also in the military.) But Shana Johnson's capture has sparked anew the debate over the proper role of women on the battlefield. Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, was in Washington last week to urge a change in the Clinton-era reforms after the war. She argues that women in combat risk rape by their captors. The two other...