The issue of concurrent time would be irrelevant then. It's not to his advantage to wait.

The penalty still would have been up to 10 years for each charge, but it would have been classified a common-law misdemeanor instead of a felony.

We have tentatively marked that as the trial date. That's subject to change. His defense attorney could request to have it continued or conflicts could arise to back it up further. But that's how we have it scheduled now.

It was the first time (President Hinckley) had ever been in a hospital to stay overnight.

Polls find young blacks less likely to call racism America's No. 1 issue. A Time/CNN poll found 89 percent of black teens consider racism in their own lives to be "a small problem" or "not a problem at all." Twice as many black teens as white believe that "failure to take advantage of available opportunities" is a bigger problem for blacks than discrimination.

For 12 years, we've been trying to get him back. It was good that his teaching last time was on patience.