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...however; he has courageously one-upped them. Though he has refused to disobey the law, he remains committed to an ideal of racial, ethnic, and class diversity in the university. But he is working toward this ideal by chipping away at long-ignored systemic problems and shunning the quick fix of affirmative action...
...could go to Dickson Brothers and get stuff to fix it up for five dollars," she said...
...fundraiser, held to honor outgoing DNC Chair Steve Grossman, was not the President's major event of the day. Clinton traveled to Jackson Mann Elementary School in Brighton, where he announced a plan to provide $200 million to fix or close failing schools nationwide...
...selling a neighbor a joint than for, say, sexually abusing her. (According to a 1997 federal report, those convicted of drug trafficking have served an average of almost seven years, nearly a year longer than those convicted of sexual abuse.) Several new books, including Michael Massing's The Fix, point out that the tough-on-drugs policies of the past 15 years haven't had much impact on the heart of the drug problem, abuse by long-term urban addicts. Even the usually hard-line drug czar Barry McCaffrey has written that "we can't incarcerate...
From the pulpit, Williams noted that the state budgets only "30,000 lousy dollars" a year for witness protection, and lawmakers were rushing last week to fix that. But few states spend much guarding witnesses, in part because most are not nearly as angelic as B.J. "A lot of witnesses are dirt-bags"--criminals themselves who don't want or need protection, says Eric Sterling of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation. Many face incarceration and want a deal. The federal Witness Security Program is limited to people with important evidence in big cases. (Of those who get in, 98% have...