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...Connor and Tutu were among the luminaries honored at the close of the conference, which drew an unusually large number of attendees from both local communities and around the country...
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu reflected on recent changes in race relations and urged continued efforts to help racial minorities during a two-day conference at Harvard Law School over the weekend...
...keynote address on Friday afternoon, O’Connor defended the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in Grutter vs. Bollinger, the landmark 2003 case upholding affirmative action at the University of Michigan Law School, but also emphasized the necessity of reducing the achievement gap between black and white students beginning in early education...
...Connor’s majority opinion in the case argued that the university’s admissions policy was a “narrowly tailored” plan to achieve the educational benefits of a diverse student body. As such, O’Connor wrote, the policy is not prohibited by the 14th Amendment...
...truce seemed in sight in 2000 when O'Connor was succeeded by Cardinal Edward Egan, a prelate far less interested in making political waves. And indeed he invited Al Gore and George W. Bush to the event that fall. Just four years later, though, both Bush and John Kerry were left off the list. "The issues in this year's campaign," explained an archdiocesan spokesman then, "could provoke division and disagreement." Critics speculated that church leaders were more concerned about keeping Kerry, a pro-choice Roman Catholic, off the stage...