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Before the crowd in Askwith Hall, civil rights advocate and public education author Jonathan Kozol ’58 spoke fervently against what he described as racial re-segregation in American schools...
...given to siblings of enrolled students, the spots were allotted to maintain a racial balance that differed by no more than 15 percent from the county’s overall demographics, according to one of the panelists, Liliana M. Garces, who wrote the amicus brief submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union for the two cases. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...decision pretty much depends on Justice Kennedy, much like it relied on [Justice] O’Connor before” in the University of Michigan decision, said Gary Orfield, a Graduate School of Education (GSE) professor and director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard...
...first question at the news conference was about the term "civil war," which Bush continues to reject, saying there is a lot of "speculation" at a time when terrorists had vowed to foment sectarian violence. Hadley, while also refusing to accept the term "civil war," finally said: "It is what it is." It was a step toward bluntness at a time when good news for the President is in short supply. In Jordan, his team hopes, he'll once again show himself to be in command...
...fact that the majority of the population of this country is Muslim is a significant element in the life of society, which the State cannot fail to take into account, yet the Turkish Constitution recognizes every citizen's right to freedom of worship and freedom of conscience. The civil authorities of every democratic country are duty bound to guarantee the effective freedom of all believers and to permit them to organize freely the life of their religious communities," the Pope said, reading his remarks in English and coughing occasionally at the end of a long day of encounters. He continued...