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...majority opinion, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor suggested affirmative action was an issue that should be revisited in 25 years. In fact, the debate has never gone away. Two conservative advocacy groups, the Center for Equal Opportunity and the Center for Individual Rights, have contacted dozens of colleges and other groups since the decision, questioning the fairness of race-exclusive programs and threatening to file complaints or lawsuits if non-minorities weren't allowed into such programs. Earlier this year, the Justice Department forced Southern Illinois University to allow non-minorities and men access to graduate fellowships originally created...
...threat in the pocket. O’Hagan’s best attribute may be his ability to make plays with his feet—he led the team with 89 rushing yards at Princeton—as Murphy is quick to highlight.“All things being equal,” Murphy said, “You ask any defensive coordinator, you get two guys of basically somewhat equal ability, and one guy can make plays with his feet…it’s tougher to defend. It’s a dimension that?...
...other words, the court is fine with a nomenclature under which some marriages would be separate - but equal. In a sentence that will seem silly - and unjust - in 20 years, the court says this explicitly: ?We will not presume that a separate statutory scheme, which uses a title other than marriage, contravenes equal protection principles, so long as the rights and benefits of civil marriage are made equally available to same-sex couples.? The Plessy court couldn?t have said it better: separate railway cars for blacks are fine, as long as they are just as nice as the ones...
...pleased with the flag.“Yes,” he said, when asked if it was the right call in that situation. “We got called on a penalty the same in the first half, so I credit the officials with calling the game equal.”Hughes was referring to an unsportsmanlike conduct call on Princeton linebacker Luke Steckel, who had received the penalty after a run by senior running back Clifton Dawson on a Harvard touchdown drive in the second quarter. That cost the Tigers half the distance to the goal...
...deciding touchdown. The jury was still out on whether it was, at that crucial juncture of the game, the right call by the referees.“We got called on a penalty the same in the first half, so I credit the officials with calling the game equal,” Hughes said.Murphy was less convinced.“It just didn’t seem out of the ordinary,” said Murphy in describing Tanner’s actions following the play.Either way, one thing remains clear about the Crimson’s last two losses...