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...Jewell and his lawyer, who are looking for a formal, public admission that he is no longer a suspect in the bombing. Currently before U.S. District Judge Owen Forrester is a motion to unseal the FBI affidavit used to obtain the search warrants used for Jewell's dwellings. Lin Wood, Jewell's lawyer, says the document will show that the FBI had no cause to investigate his client. The FBI is seeking to keep the paperwork private, citing concerns that releasing the affidavit would compromise its ongoing investigation. Even if the affidavit is released and the FBI produces a letter...
...political channels--and those are the channels where Dole has spent his whole career. Prop. 209 is really a by-product of the political-correctness wars in universities. These spawned an anti-p.c. organization called the National Association of Scholars, through which two academics, Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, met. Custred and Wood had separately got the idea of an abolish-affirmative-action ballot initiative, and in 1991 they joined forces and began actively pushing it, without much success...
...original name for Prop. 209 was the California Civil Rights Initiative--a moniker that expresses Custred and Wood's central strategic insight, which was to present the initiative as a direct descendent of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The wording of the proposition is adapted from the 1964 Civil Rights Act. None of the advocates of the proposition who appears regularly before the public is a white male. Its advertising slogan is "Bring us together." The idea the pro-proposition forces are selling is that affirmative action has introduced obsessive color consciousness into what otherwise would...
...addition to the equipment on the main level, WellBridge offers a heated pool, complete with a whirlpool and potted cacti, an aerobic studio with a tiled wood floor and a locker room with a sauna and a steam room...
Chelsea followed, accompanied by some of her friends from home and a couple of Crimson Key guides. The First Daughter looked up cheerfully at the menu, ordered a sandwich and a drink, and then sat down in one of the polished wood coves with her friends. Probably not wanting to cramp her daughter's style, the First Lady and another woman sat at a neighboring cove. It only took a few moments before the Commons was abuzz with speculation, and only a few moments before the group I was eating with--some 'representative' students lunching with a candidate...