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...welcome and clear attempt to grapple more directly with the question of race. Figures like Ward Connerly, the black campaigner against affirmative action, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, public servants like Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, and a whole bevy of neoconservative thinkers have embraced a color-blind politics that makes a sincere effort to reach out to minorities. In opposition to the racial groupthink of the far left and the bigotry of the far right, this conservatism has sought to uplift individuals regardless of race or background. For these conservatives, treating all people as equal citizens regardless...
...only bigoted, but also dangerous to the public welfare, to turn away so many thousands of donors. The FDA should create more detailed questionnaires about potential donors’ sexual history, instead of fostering the implicit assumption that all gay men are promiscuous. Personal history is the pertinent information; blind predetermination based on orientation is not. The FDA must update both its regulation and its mindset on this issue of critical importance...
...First Amendment is blind to such religious beliefs, protecting the private beliefs of all parties; the Staff would end such equality...
...with what their education tells them about the applicants’ financial situations. Although Harvard proudly tells prospective students, “Each admission decision is made without any regard for a candidate’s financial resources—a policy we call ‘need-blind admission,’” the admissions application suggests that they might not be after...
...instructions for the application the importance of the family questions, which should be optional. As it is, applicants often think the worst. If Harvard’s intentions are just, their actions should be transparent. And if Harvard assures the applicants that its admissions decisions are need-blind, no financial data, unless absolutely necessary, should end up in the hands of admissions officers...