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...filed Harvard's amicus curiae brief on the case with the Supreme Court, argue that it is important not to rule against the U.C. Davis program as a quota system because it is still early enough in the affirmative action game so that individual admissions committees deserve some elbow room in working out their own programs. At the more emotional level, a number of black politicians and spokesmen for civil rights groups have stressed the crucial symbolic impact of the ruling, predicting that, subtleties aside, ruling against U.C. Davis would be seen as a ruling against affirmative action, and that...
...jeopardize the freedom universities now enjoy to select their own admissions procedures and develop their own means of overcoming discrimination. "The hopes induced by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, that within a generation racial inequalities in education would be eradicated, have not been realized. Universities need some elbow-room to experiment in their quest for solutions," the University's brief states...
...YORK--And so on a sultry afternoon in that region of upper Manhattan affectionatcly referred to as Devil's Elbow, they kicked off the 1977 Ivy football season with a big loud slurp...
...used to call Clay Felker our drinking editor, not because he had a more agile elbow than any of the rest of us, but simply because he . . . managed to get to more parties in a week than anybody else in a month...
...spoken as often by jesting laymen these days as by doctors, still contain more than a grain of truth. Some 75 years after its introduction, aspirin remains the world's leading painkiller, used for easing aches of every type, from headache to hangover, arthritis to athlete's elbow...