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...Mexican descent, about 11% of the applicants accepted in 1997, made up just 6% this year. Taken together, African Americans, Native Americans and Latinos of all backgrounds, who constitute about 34% of the state's population, account for just a tenth of this year's admissions. Berkeley admissions director Bob Laird argues that "the outcomes might have been significantly worse had the new policy not been adopted." He may be right, but to a great many Californians, that's cold comfort...
...Europe, where he interviewed psychiatrists in 18 countries for a planned doctoral dissertation, Tomes built a valuable collection of Russian artifacts. During that time, Tomes never abandoned his own artwork: he has sketched life-size portraits of every Notre Dame football coach from Jesse Harper to the current Bob Davie, each of which hangs today in the Fighting Irish athletic office...
...right-winger Bo Gritz and rail against income tax; two guys from Radio Free Bakersfield who play the homegrown punk-rock bands the commercial stations ignore; and a 19-year-old Milwaukee, Wis., waitress with pink-and-purple hair who reads from Winnie-the-Pooh on her Radio Free Bob children's hour. "There's no difference between microradio and the printing presses of the Founding Fathers that were outlawed by the British government," says "Brad," 27, a bike messenger who reads his poetry on Steal This Radio, a 20-watt station on New York City's Lower East Side...
...rating of any national politician in the U.S. could win the nomination, they assured themselves that the Speaker's real goal was to exit gracefully from the House, a place he was no longer wanted. Newt's plans were so well known that Dick Armey, the majority leader, and Bob Livingston, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, have been waging a bitter battle of succession since February...
...hair cut like that," she confesses. "I looked like a boy. I almost cried. My aunt said I looked like a weed." Eventually, though, her roommate Lana Lee '98 suggested that they go to Leonard Stephen in the Square. "Now I'm happy," Yang says of her layered bob. "I get it cut like every 6 weeks. I like my hair to be nice and sharp...