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Issued by District Court Judge Bernard A. Friedman, the March injunction came in the wake of a two and half-year lawsuit filed against the university by a Caucasian female applicant, who alleged that she was not admitted to the U-M Law School because of racial discrimination...
...Last November, California voters approved Proposition 36, which was modeled after Arizona's law. In California, users arrested for possession are sent to drug treatment for as long as a year and receive as much as a half-year of follow-up care. Users can violate parole rules several times before they are ultimately sentenced to prison terms...
...Elian's much-discussed psychic injuries will or will not have manifested themselves in some regrettable way, but we'll just have to wait and see. And when we get the news of his inevitable breakdown, we'll sit around and tsk-tsk, trying to remember specifics of the half-year melodrama that brought Elian so relentlessly into our homes and water-cooler conversations...
...civil-rights-era South are still reverberating in North Carolina - and has affected what many see as a legitimate educational experiment. Last week, Parkwood Middle School, in a suburb of Charlotte, bowed to pressure from the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and ended a half-year tryout in which 55 of 335 of Parkwood's eighth graders were separated by gender into two different classes. The ACLU claimed the exercise, which school officials hoped would highlight any intellectual benefits of segregating adolescents by gender, was discriminatory toward the girls involved; in their argument against the separation...
...started during Greenspan's latest congressional testimony. At first he repeated his usual concern that the economy is expanding too fast. And for the past half-year, it has indeed grown at a red-hot 6% annual rate, double its presumed speed limit and thus an inflation risk as demand for both goods and labor threatens to outpace supply...