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...December, the court will wrestle with whether race can be used to assign pupils to public elementary and secondary schools. White parents from Louisville, Ky., and Seattle, backed by the Bush Administration, argue that using race as a deciding factor violates the constitutional right to equal protection. The most recent precedent: 2003, when the court ruled 5-4 that race could be used as a factor in admissions to public universities. Kennedy, who dissented in that case, could swing the decision the other...
DIED. Sister Mary Luke Tobin, 98, indomitably progressive Catholic nun; in Nerinx, Ky. A former ballet teacher, she was the only American woman to participate in the Second Vatican Council. Over the years, she spoke out against the Vietnam War and nuclear stockpiling and for female ordination. She was a close friend of monk and diarist Thomas Merton...
...Paris, if you're reading this, my Social Security number starts with "105," ends with "7," and the combined digits add up to 43; I'll see you next Tuesday at 9:16 p.m. in the Paducah, Ky., Denny's. We'll take things slow...
...pacemaker, and in the seventies he had battled Hodgkin’s Disease. At the January dinner, friends were “relieved” at the state of his health. One month after that dinner, he contracted pneumonia, and he died on April 3 at his Louisville, Ky., home. He was 72.The man who went by “Barry Jr.” made his name as a hard-nosed newspaper publisher, a generous philanthropist, and a pioneer in journalistic ethics. But after his family’s loss of its Louisville media empire in 1986, Bingham refocused...
...mostly the stuff of nightmares. In and out of 36 foster homes, Vonda, now 22, says she was sexually abused by relatives, molested by a foster parent and raped as a teenager. By the time she got to the home of Dale Graham and Karla Groschelle in Whitley City, Ky., at 17, she had been in eight hospitals and three group homes and had just run away from her last foster home. Arriving at the couple's house for what she expected to be yet another short-term placement, she remembers, "I was so nervous, and I was just thinking...