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...Grutter ruling relied on the contention that diversity in higher education is a “compelling state interest that can justify the use of race in university admissions”—and that this interest trumps concerns about discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This view was first articulated by former Justice Lewis F. Powell’s majority opinion in Bakke...
...protest drew a counter-demonstration of roughly equal numbers, as members of gay rights groups including the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) arrived and stood on an opposite street corner...
...about Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, and only a bit more than that about Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark case decided yesterday by the U.S. Supreme Court. That opinion, in overturning sodomy laws in the 13 states in which they remain, could pave the way for equal rights for gays on a national scale. We didn’t hear about various pieces of legislation before Congress and state legislatures which, as queers, we might have an interest in either supporting or opposing. We didn’t even hear the outrage that...
...Clearly, there wasn't much for affirmative action opponents to cheer about. "A disaster," said Edward Blum, a senior fellow at the Center for Equal Opportunity, which had a filed a brief in the case opposing affirmative action...
...alive who hasn't heard of George Orwell? Or his prescient novels Animal Farm and 1984 - at least in their Hollywood versions? Or any of those chilling words and phrases he gave us: Newspeak, double-think, unperson, cold war, Ministry of Truth, Big Brother is watching, some are more equal than others? Fifty-three years after Orwell's death, his books have sold more than 40 million copies in 60 languages, and a million new readers discover him every year. His reputation as a champion of freedom, decency and clean prose has long outlived his era. The term Orwellian...