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...true diversity cannot be achieved by considering race alone. “The diversity that furthers a compelling state interest encompasses a far broader array of qualifications and characteristics, of which racial or ethnic origin is but a single, though important, element,” Powell wrote. To attain a meaningful sense of diversity, universities must ensure that they take socioeconomic, geographic and personal factors into account, in addition to race and ethnicity...
Conversely, he said, people who receive little respect, particularly in childhood, often commit violent acts to attain recognition...
...goal is to accelerate that trend an additional 30%--the equivalent of taking 70 million cars off the road or avoiding roughly 500 million metric tons of greenhouse gases. In fact, meeting the President's goal will require emissions reductions comparable with what the Kyoto Protocol parties hope to attain--but without the devastating economic consequences of the Kyoto approach...
MARK REACHED. By BARRY BONDS, 38, who hit his 600th home run with a 421-ft. shot to center field at Pacific Bell Park. The San Francisco slugger became only the fourth major-leaguer to attain the goal...
...American landscape. But Sam Mendes' darkly imaginative and powerfully enfolding movie Road to Perdition offers a third, more ironic definition: it's a kind of paradise, a sun-swept beach, complete with a playful, welcoming dog, that a man and his son struggle against malevolent forces to attain--and then lose in an instant...