TOPEKA, Kan. -- Fifty years after the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation, President Bush on Monday acknowledged that "habits of racism" still linger in America, and his Democratic opponent John Kerry said the nation's schools remain "separate but unequal.

Funeral services were held at St. Mary's Catholic Church today for Duszan Poniz, associate professor of architecture and member of the Texas A&M University faculty since 1972.

The college class of 2004 is somewhat in luck. Employers are expected to hire 11.2 percent more of them than they did from the class of 2003. The projection comes from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, which follows job trends for new graduates.

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Kyle Beck dives into his college studies in an unexpected way. Beck, 24, is the first Texas Wesleyan University student to complete the curriculum for a minor degree in scuba diving.

WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Iraq looms as a destination this year's West Point graduates did not expect when they arrived here four years ago. Then, the nation was at peace, Sept. 11, 2001, was just another date, and warfare was a theoretical exercise.