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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...open itself up to competition—hello there, legacy admissions!—and I’m thus wary of those who argue that our society is already a meritocratic paradise. I’m also extremely wary of those who claim that the best way to fix this is to engage in a sort of therapeutic racism that, inevitably, is forced to decide who among the minorities is a “deserving” minority and who is an “over-represented” one. In theory, admissions should be done the way many...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis | Title: Affirmative Action Returns | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...Patching the Safety Net A series of clinic visits by one patient made me realize just how broken the current health care system is ? and what can be done to fix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I'm Not Against, Like, Oh Wow Man, Pot | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

While technicians are working to fix the glitch, "we don't have an estimate time when that's going to happen," Hien Van Do, a user assistant at FAS Computing Services, said shortly before...

Author: By Crimson News Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FAS Rewinds to Slower Era | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...adopted child. I wonder how much Madonna understands that. Madhuri Pai Singapore Proliferating Primates Re "Way too much monkey business" [Nov. 13], on the overpopulation of rhesus macaques in Delhi: The problem reflects the sad state of Indian society today. Indians see only the immediate trouble and its quick fix. In the quest for a high per capita income, the society is moving forward in much the same way it handled the monkey issue - creating problems, analyzing those problems in retrospect, critiquing the possible solutions and finally learning to coexist with the problem. Then some entrepreneur sees a business opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outstanding European Individuals | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

...Center works to fix the problem as quickly as possible, said Rebecca Hunter, program coordinator of the center, by trying to get them in before they begin teaching their next classes...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: When Teachers Go Back to School | 11/28/2006 | See Source »

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