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...months. The announcement can't come soon enough for the locals, who find the whole process maddeningly bureaucratic. Meanwhile, a garishness is sweeping into town. Flight 93 trinkets are popping up everywhere, including Ida's Country Store on Main Street, and visitors talk of touring the nation's "disaster circuit"--ground zero, the Pentagon, Oklahoma City and Columbine...
...been almost a quarter of a century since the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an affirmative-action case about college admissions--but the University of Michigan Law School may break the drought. Last week a bitterly divided federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 5 to 4 in favor of the school's race-conscious admissions policy. Lawyers for Barbara Grutter, a white woman whose Michigan application was rejected, are already working on her appeal. "It's time for the Supreme Court to weigh in and explain better what the law is in this area," says Terence Pell...
Four years ago, when I was entering Harvard College, affirmative action programs had just been dismantled in the University of California system. Last week, affirmative action was given a shot in the arm when a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality of the University of Michigan Law School’s admissions process, which grants extra “points” to minority students in the admissions process, to ensure the enrollment of a “critical mass” of black and Hispanic students...
University President Lawrence H. Summers reacted to last week’s news with characteristic sanguinity, saying, “I applaud the circuit court’s decision, which represents the endorsement of the kinds of admissions process that Harvard has used for years...
...unit reached 10,000 through the holidays, and the company says it sells about 8,500 players a month. Bantam doesn't advertise or sell through retailers. Consumers shop on Bantam's website, bantamusa.com A skeleton crew does design and engineering in St. Louis, Mo. Flash-memory chips and circuit boards come from Taiwan and South Korea. The units are assembled and packaged in China and sent directly to customers...