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...tr?s Hollywood to blend fashion and statement. Academy President Frank Pierson expressed the hope: "Let's have peace soon, and let us live without war." These Americans were joined by Spain's Almod?var, who pleaded for peace and "international legality," and by Kidman, the Australian who played English novelist Virginia Woolf in "The Hours": she proclaimed the crucial place of art in times of war. Chip by chip, nationality by nationality, you could hear the showbiz contingent of the Coalition of the Willing cracking asunder. I applaud the eloquence, poignance and sheer brass of these statements, especially since I agree...
...first planted European grape varieties in the 1950s. No one thought they would survive, much less thrive. Today Dr. Konstantin Frank's Rieslings are some of the best in the U.S. Thomas Jefferson, an aficionado of French wines, would have been proud of the Bordeaux-style reds produced by Virginia's Linden Vineyards. And last November three of Texas winemaker Becker Vineyard's products made Wine Spectator's list of the top 12 U.S. regional wines...
...Education's Office of Civil Rights launched an investigation of M.I.T. last May after receiving complaints from two groups that are opposed to affirmative action, the California-based American Civil Rights Institute, led by Ward Connerly (who spearheaded the 1996 initiative that banned affirmative action in California), and the Virginia-based Center for Equal Opportunity...
Blum said the University of Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic and State University and Iowa State University have also recently changed the admissions policies of similar programs...
Weber St., Holy Cross, Liberty and Western Kentucky beat out Harvard for 13 seeds. Three of those teams had wins against opponents with far higher rankings than any Harvard had beaten. Western Kentucky knocked off Louisiana Tech, Liberty defeated Virginia and Weber St. beat Utah...