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...celebrated Bakke decision of 1978, the court struck down a fixed racial quota on admissions to the medical school of the University of California at Davis, but said that race could be an element in the university's admissions policy. In last year's Weber de -cision, the court upheld a quota in a private company's employee training program. Left unresolved, however, was the fundamental constitutional question: Does the "equal protection of the laws" guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment flatly prohibit government affirmative-action programs? In last week's case, six Justices said no. They...
Earlier in the day Edelin described in detail the "abortion by hysterotomy," in which he performed an abdomenal in- cision on the 17-year-old patient to expose the uterus and remove the fetus
...backfield is symbolic of Penn's success this year. Composed entirely of seniors, the group has worked together for three seasons cision generally absent in Ivy League play...
However the decision will "hurt him considerably," McCloskey added. "It is another shove on McCarthy's current downhill course." McCloskey felt the de- cision had little legal meaning...
...demerits they get (for anything from an unmilitary snicker to an unmade bed) "soaks." Proudest Shads are those who make the Crack Squad of 16 boys, which drills in special uniforms, with the last remaining 1870 Army rifles, and is rated by Army men one of the best pre cision teams...