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Talking the Talk
Wray Herbert 5/13/2009 12:00:00 AM
Imagine being at one of those rare junctures in life where you make a major personal commitment: You decide you're going to become a vegan and take up yoga, or earn a million bucks by the time you're 40, or become a scientist or lawyer. Difficult things, things that take a lot of effort. It's a bold step just to declare these goals and plans and intentions privately. But what's the best chance for upping your chances for success? Do you publicly announce your epiphany, and include your family and friends and colleagues in your dream? Or should you just put your head down and do all the hard work without fanfare?
Murky Past
Mark Hosenball 9/5/2001 12:00:00 AM
An adjunct professor of international taxation at TV evangelist Pat Robertson's Regent University law school has abruptly resigned, the school said, after questions were raised about his background and his possible role in a major European money-laundering investigation.
'Race Still Matters'
Kevin Peraino
ESSAY
The Color Bind
Ellis Cose
Last year the highly ranked UT law school admitted a class that was 5.9 percent black and 6.3 percent Hispanic. This year (with roughly 80 percent selected, and the university projecting no huge shift in proportions of those yet to be picked), the black percentage stands at just over .7 and the Hispanic at just under 2.3. Angelyque Campbell, a black student completing work on a combined law and public-policy degree, believes that the school is in danger of becoming an "ivory white tower" that no longer values minority students. To Ward Connerly, who led the fight for the abolition of affirmative action in California state government, UT law school's numbers reveal something even more troubling. They reflect "the magnitude of the preferences we have been giving at many of our colleges... and accentuate the tragedy of affirmative action." Such statistics, he says, should not inspire alarm but motivate people to "put their noses to the grindstone and get better prepared."
Caught In A Parent Trap

My younger kid was going over the river to grandmother's house last Thanksgiving when he hit black ice. He and his passenger survived the 360-degree skid-then-smash unscathed, but the car was fatally injured. And on his entry-level civil servant's salary, the loss--of a 1986, 120,000-mile heap--is a catastrophe. My right hand reaches for my checkbook; my left hand slaps it. What is the proper giving role, I ask myself, of relatively well-off parents to their adult (just) self-supporting (almost) children?
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