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...whatever the criteria, FOP participants tend to be slanted toward the top of the economic spectrum...
...admit to knowing little about specific law school admission criteria, but I can say with reasonable confidence that there is not a preponderance of Asians in the field. I am pre-law, and I cannot count the number of times people have tried to dissuade me from attempting to become a lawyer. Do you, they asked, really want to spend the rest of your life fighting stereotypes about passive Asians to get your cases? Do you really want to be some law firm's token Asian? I have friends who were pre-law, but who shied away from a profession...
...affirmative action system in its current form works imperfectly. Group identification reigns if the criteria for targeting and evaluation of candidates take no account of individual circumstance, and the results grow more inconsistent with the solid justification for affirmative action when groups undeserving of special consideration fall under the pro-diversity umbrella...
Instead, Bush fed the American people a diet of bullshit rhetoric that redefines the criteria for criminality. It doesn't matter that Weinberger et al violated the law, he said, because "the common denominator of their motivation--whether their actions were right or wrong--was patriotism...
...course, each of these criteria applies as well to Bush himself as it does to those he pardoned. In a way, then, his rationalization of the pardons is an argument of selfdefense. And he's going to need it, because his crimes are also similar to those of the people he pardoned. It turns out the President kept a journal of sorts starting in November 1986--the month the scandal became public--and withheld the transcripts of that journal from Walsh until last month...