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...Crimson dashed through the final nine contests of its 13-game win streak, with Cserny scoring in double-digits in all but two, on the way to the Ivy crown and the national circuit...
...team was further given a shot in the arm with the return of David Lingman, who was a member of the team as a freshman two years ago but had taken time off to play as an amateur on the professional circuit. Lingman and Chu quickly formed an indomitable 1-2 combination at the top of the Harvard lineup...
...made the circuit from Denver to San Francisco to San Diego to Houston,” he says, “and talked to 28 different newspaper organizations, and every one of them turned me down...
...Court ruling that struck down quota systems and sent white, would-be medical student Allan Bakke to school. But it also ruled that universities could continue to consider applicants' race in the "compelling interest" of diversity. Lower courts have viewed Bakke differently: pro-affirmative action universities in the Fifth Circuit's jurisdiction feel legal victories are unlikely, but those in the Sixth are heartened by the Michigan case. The fact that lower courts have interpreted Bakke in divergent ways may lead the Supreme Court to hear Grutter's appeal, experts believe...
Meanwhile, the Sixth Circuit is facing another conflict: Judge Danny Bloggs, in an appendix to his dissenting opinion, implied that court policy had been contravened in order to select judges favorable to Michigan's cause. His claim was a "new low," said Sixth Circuit colleague Judge Karen Nelson Moore, and would irreparably damage "already strained working relationships." Could the Supreme Court fix those too? --By Amanda Bower