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...project’s leaders praised the 5-4 decision by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for reaffirming a 1978 Supreme Court case that has since been considered legal precedent for permitting affirmative action...
...applaud the circuit court’s decision, which represents the endorsement of the kinds of admissions process that Harvard has used for years,” he said...
...nation’s highest court accepted the appeal and overturned the circuit court’s decision, universities across the country—including Harvard—would likely be forced to make drastic changes to their affirmative action policies...
Indirectly, Harvard admissions policies played a part in both the circuit court decision on Tuesday and the 1978 Supreme Court case to which it referred, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, which prohibited the use of quotas to achieve diversity but said race could be one criterion for admissions decisions...
...Each country accuses the other of using diplomats as a cover for spying. So India and Pakistan both routinely tap each other's embassy telephones, tail diplomats around the cocktail circuit and sometimes have dispatched gigolos to seduce each other's wives for future blackmail. One barometer of the chill between India and Pakistan is the frequency with which they toss out each other's diplomats. The temperature is decidedly frosty: last week, Indian police allegedly slapped around and expelled a Pakistani diplomat for spying, and the Pakistanis responded in kind. In South Asia, the "foreign hand" is always restless...