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...refused to hear a challenge to the law. According to current federal guidelines, it takes 100 times more cocaine powder than crack to draw the same 10-year minimum sentence for drug dealing. Because crack is more prevalent in poor, predominantly black inner-city areas, an appeal by a consortium of attorneys (including Johnnie Cochran) argued that the law unfairly targets blacks, while letting suburban whites--the primary consumers of powder cocaine off with a lesser sentence for carrying the same amount of the drug. The case involved a black man, Duane Edwards, who was arrested in the District...
...survey was created by the Consortium on Financing Higher Education, a private company. Although the College authored some questions itself, most were written by the Consortium...
...Consortium's questions ask parents about how they obtain information from Harvard; their visits to Harvard; their interactions with offices and individuals; receptions for parents in their area; and their views on the college's success in academics, services and facilities, Dingman said...
Gates does not hide his cutthroat instincts. "The competitive landscape here is strange, ranging from Navio to even WebTV," he says. He is particularly focused on Navio, a consumer-software consortium recently launched by Netscape and others designed to make sure that Windows and Windows CE (its consumer-electronics cousin) do not become the standard for interactive television and game machines. "I want to put something in our product that's hard for Navio to do. What are their plans?" The group admits that their intelligence on Navio is poor. Gates rocks harder. "You have to pick someone in your...
...order to pacify the area and allow the pipeline to go through, the SLORC has increased its military presence and forcibly relocated thousands of villagers. The SLORC is a partner in the Total-Unocal venture and retains the option of a stake in Texaco's consortium. U.N. Special Rapporteur Yozo Yokota made the connection between SLORC's presence and human rights abuses in 1995, stating that "forced labor, forced relocation, arbitrary killings, beatings, rapes, and confiscation of property by the SLORC are most commonly occurring in border areas where the Army is engaged in military operations or regional development projects...