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...Corey Brennan, a fourth-year graduate student in Classics, is one of 27 American students awarded a scholarship to study at the Academy in one of 10 different fields for a year...
...Brennan will work on his dissertation about high-ranked government officials in ancient Rome while he is at the Academy. He said he plans to complete the bulk of it next year and return to finish...
Writing the lead opinion, however, Justice William Brennan maintained that the Alabama troopers' discrimination was "pervasive, systematic and obstinate." That pattern, he said, "created a profound need and a firm justification for the race-conscious relief." In the past the court has looked with favor only on affirmative-action plans that minimize penalties to the innocent, but the harm to white officers in this case, wrote Brennan, was limited to the time necessary to achieve the integration goal and so "only postpones the promotions of qualified whites...
...always in affirmative-action cases, the court was sharply divided. Brennan's opinion was joined by Justices Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and Lewis Powell. Justice John Paul Stevens provided the fifth vote, but in a separate, seemingly more sweeping opinion stressed that in cases of proven discrimination, judges have "broad and flexible authority to remedy the wrongs...
...majority coalition cut across ideological lines. Sandra Day O'Connor, a Reagan appointee and the court's only woman, joined the liberal Marshall in his opinion, as did William Brennan, Harry Blackmun and (with a minor exception) John Paul Stevens. Antonin Scalia, a philosophical conservative who is Reagan's only other appointee to the bench, wrote a separate opinion that agreed with the outcome but on narrower grounds...