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...Race-conscious affirmative action is as controversial as it has ever been, but last week’s oral arguments in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases make clear that subtlety rather than absolutism will determine the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision making in these hotly contested and vitally important cases...
...blind approach to college admissions, but the justices’ questions demonstrated that a far more nuanced analysis is required, one in which race could continue to play an important but limited role in college admissions. While several of the justices have obviously made up their minds on race-conscious admissions policies, the Court’s “swing” justices, particularly Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, grappled with some of the thornier issues in these cases, whether it was determining appropriate time limits on admissions policies or trying to define the meaning...
...narrowly tailored” to promote a “compelling governmental interest.” Specifically, the Court must decide whether promoting diversity in higher education is a sufficiently important goal to justify the use of race and whether the university’s race-conscious policies are, in fact, the ideal means to advance that goal. Both public universities and private universities that receive federal funding are bound by these constitutional standards when they employ race in admissions...
He’s a self-conscious but sharp 22-year-old who graduated from Harvard College last year, an economics concentrator and a huge fan of punk rock and roller coasters. Edelman, a shy, soft-spoken first-year law student who could pass for a high school senior, says he doesn’t know what he wants to do after he graduates from Harvard Law School...
...evidence is the alternative minimum tax. The AMT already forces a lot of people to calculate their taxes twice and to pay the higher amount. By 2010 about 36 million people will fall under the AMT. I think as that starts to affect more people, they will become more conscious of the fact that something is wrong...