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...Harvard Civil Rights Project, a research and advocacy organization based at the Law School, had filed a friend-of-the-court brief on the University of Michigan case supporting universities’ right to consider race as a factor in admissions...
...school case…and I hope this sends a strong signal to the universities that their policies are still valid and need to be continued,” said Angelo Ancheta, the project’s director of legal and advocacy programs and lead counsel on the brief...
...talk about Objectively Bad Films (from now on, OBF's), we need a brief course in moviemaking and movie-watching. Nearly all films strive to make their technique invisible. Audiences may be enthralled or bored by the picture, but they usually don't notice - at least, they're not supposed to - how the placement of the camera, the delivery of lines and the editing rhythm create a plausible fictional world. Even mediocre movies speak the language of film grammatically, if not beautifully...
...critical moment will be when the Fed reluctantly gets back into the game. For now, inflation seems tame enough, and even an outbreak wouldn't be good news of sorts if it were tied to resurgent economic growth. But whenever energy prices are high - and despite taking a brief slide Monday as Iraq ended its month-long oil embargo, they still are - the worst kind of price pressures lurk. Add to that the weak dollar increasing domestic prices in the import-dependent U.S., and it's not too hard to imagine some version of that dreaded 70s economy - growth-less...
Shortly after his Middle East tour in March, Vice President Dick Cheney dropped in on a Senate Republican policy lunch. When it was time for him to brief the senators on his trip he began by saying, "I don't want anybody talking about this. It's sensitive." Senators and staffers put down their pens. Cheney, according to one person in the room, made it clear "it's not if, it's when we move militarily" against Saddam Hussein. Arab and European leaders, he insisted, were more open to a military operation than they let on publicly...