Word: conscious
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Yesterday’s oral arguments marked the first time the Court has considered race-conscious programs in higher education since the 1978 University of California Regents v. Bakke case, when the court struck down the use of quotas but permitted the use of race as one factor in admissions...
...Supreme Court readies to hear oral arguments tomorrow in a landmark affirmative action case, Harvard is voicing its support for the race-conscious admissions—from the highest level of the administration down to the grassroots...
...expert in constitutional law, was one of the main drafters of Harvard’s friend-of-the-court brief, co-signed by seven other universities, which argued that the Supreme Court should find constitutional both the University of Michigan’s law school and undergraduate race-conscious admissions policies...
...oldest allies to a public showdown is quite remarkable. (Presidents usually do the precise opposite: they struggle to avoid any appearance of disunity.) This is a breathtaking gamble, and the question arises: Is it witting or not? Is the Administration's disdain for diplomatic precedent a strategy--a conscious effort to challenge the institutions and arrangements of the past 50 years--or merely a matter of presidential pique? The flattery, handholding and creative fudgery that are at the heart of diplomacy are the very sort of fancy-pants flummeries that the President abhors. This has been a radical experiment--John...
...substance. Beginning with James Agee and Walker Evans’ photographic social history “Let us Now Praise Famous Men,” the reading list included works by Percy, Williams, Flannery O’Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, and an encyclopedia of other socially-conscious observers...