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...around a possible affirmative-action ban. But if the court bars or narrows affirmative action in admissions policies, it will nonetheless put a chill on many of those nontraditional efforts, while public schools nationwide will have to throw out the traditional ones as well. "The court has shown a distinct distaste for race-based remedies," says A.E. Dick Howard, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. "No matter what it decides in the Michigan cases, it has made it harder across the board to have affirmative action...
...House goes too far with its tendency to use him as a foil to show voters that the President is a compassionate conservative. During the 2000 campaign, Bush opposed a DeLay-backed plan on tax credits for the poor to demonstrate that he was a "new kind of Republican," distinct from the G.O.P.'s tightfisted, meanspirited wing. At the time, Bush accused DeLay & Co. of trying to "balance their budget on the backs of the poor." According to a DeLay confidant, Bush later apologized and said he would not use DeLay as a right-wing bogeyman again...
...significant trump card in the country's divided political geography - a situation for which the Bush administration can thank the French (and the British). Iraq, like most of the nation-states conjured up with pencil and ruler on mapping tables in European capitals during the colonial era, comprises three distinct and often hostile ethnic groups. The Europeans did this to make such entities easier to rule from the outside and hobble their ability to unite against the colonial authorities. And the same dynamic may help the Americans...
When she arrived at Harvard, Lagemann created several committees to examine the school’s administrative and curricular structures, aiming to bring together the faculty’s three distinct divisions—Administration, Planning and Social Policy; Human Development and Psychology; and Teaching and Learning...
...Some of us felt that there were faculty issues that were distinct,” he said. “Faculty can be fairly independent and isolated entities….We were looking for a larger voice...