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...store's reopening had also been slowed by a management dispute between Murray and the restaurant's former chef. The chef--who Murray said prevented the store from starting business again by taking equipment from the building and refusing to work--has been replaced by Ralph Kelly, a chef and former wine steward originally from San Francisco, Calif...
...blacks and Hispanics on California college campuses actually dropped under the old policy: "I am skeptical that affirmative action accomplished a heck of a lot for minorities." Even defenders concede its faults. "I think it was coming close to leading us to a quota system," says U.C. Irvine chancellor Ralph Cicerone...
...stipulate that the "reinvigoration of his faith" is genuine--but it's also helpful in the here and now. Former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed says, "His testimony of a profound faith experience does not act as a surrogate for being acceptable on the issue, but it does make it easier to give him the benefit of the doubt because he shares the grassroots faith and values...
Perhaps it is only fitting that Juneteenth (Random House; 368 pages; $25), Ralph Ellison's long-awaited second novel, almost 50 years in the making, would be published in 1999, the centennial year of Duke Ellington's birth. For Ellington and Ellison, along with the painter Romare Bearden, were practitioners of a shared aesthetic, three titans of an African-American modernism, embodying in their work elegance, eloquence and elan...
...accused Graham of intellectualism, profound spirituality or social compassion, but he is free of any association with the Christian right of Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed and all the other advocates of a God whose prime concerns are abolishing the graduated income tax and a woman's right to choose abortion (which Graham also opposes). And there have been no scandals, financial or sexual, to darken Graham's mission. His sincerity, transparent and convincing, cannot be denied. He is an icon essential to a country in which, for two centuries now, religion has been not the opiate but the poetry...