1.   Friends of the men said the scholarships were for academics, partly from financial aid institutions and partly from a BC minority affairs program.

2.   Part of that success has come by expanding the applicant pool, said Dr. Byron Cryer, associate professor of internal medicine and associate dean of minority student affairs.

3.   She became a social worker, then dean of admissions and director of minority affairs at Gonzaga University in Spokane.

4.   The cause was cancer, said Dr. Gerald Thomson, a colleague and dean of minority affairs at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.

5.   The Hispanic population at TCU has nearly doubled in the past two years, said Darron Turner, director of minority affairs for TCU.

6.   Chinese officials in charge of security, religious and minority affairs refused to be interviewed about the unrest.

7.   Previous right-wing governments have appointed ministers to oversee minority affairs, but never has there been a formal Arab Affairs ministry.

8.   Whitman can appoint a minority to head a council of minority affairs and an elderly resident to lead a senior citizen commission, lawyer Rosemary Alito said.