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...defending the use of race in university admissions decisions, Powell cited Harvard’s policies as a model in Bakke. O’Connor explicitly echoed Powell on this point, referring multiple times to the “Harvard plan” as ideal. She also cited a book co-authored by former University President Derek C. Bok and a study on affirmative action by Gary Orfield, who is the founding co-director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard, and Harvard research assistant Michal Kurlaender...
...Connor recalled Powell’s assertion that diversity brings major benefits to academic settings...
...Connor, who was widely considered the swing vote on Monday’s cases, also cited the example of the U.S. military. A friend-of-the-court brief filed by high-ranking members of the armed forces said their ranks had reaped advantages from diversity after putting race-conscious policies in place...
Hermione would be a pretty familiar stereotype as well if she were just "the smart one." But Rowling also makes her resourceful and at times the toughest. "Hermione ignores a lot," says Ellis O'Connor, 10, in Evanston, Ill. "Ignoring while people are teasing is very, very important, because if you don't ignore them, they'll get on your nerves more, and it will be worse." She knows something about being teased because of a developmentally delayed older brother whom the other kids call retarded. Kids who get mocked because they don't have cool clothes find a soul...
...Once the Court took the Michigan cases, both affirmative action supporters and opponents thought that it might strike the final blow to racial preference admissions policies. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, often the swing vote on the Court, has expressed concerns repeatedly in opinions about how long affirmative action will be a viable remedy to help underrepresented minorities in business. But in today's ruling, she quoted from the former Justice Lewis Powell's Bakke opinion in arguing that diversity represented a "compelling state interest" which should be supported through affirmative action. Legal scholars say they weren't surprised...