Word: happened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people were very unhappy with this hubbub around Radcliffe's future without any hard factual evidence about what was going to happen to Radcliffe," Schmitt said...
...Austin represent only 2.9% of all admissions, in contrast to 4.3% (416) the year before the law changed. At Texas A&M admissions of black students fell 3%, and those of Hispanic students went down 7%. "We expected a significant increase in minority numbers, and that did not happen," concedes Al Kauffman, a senior lawyer with the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, who helped draft the law. A notable exception: at UT Austin the chief beneficiaries of the new law seem to be Asian students, whose admissions under the 10% Plan rose a whopping 16% in the past two years...
...affirmative-action propagandists than puffing out their chests and boasting about admissions numbers. Consider: under affirmative action, nearly half the black freshmen at Berkeley don't make it. Under the new color-blind system, yes, the black freshman class is cut roughly in half (hence the headlines). What will happen to the less advanced half--those who didn't qualify academically and would probably have ended up among the 42% that drop out? They will likely end up at other UC campuses where they should do very well...
...assigned to murder informs Brother Bill that warfare is on the horizon, that just moments ago he was instructed to kill a rival gang member. "I don't wanna shoot nobody, and I don't wanna die, Brother Bill," the voice whispers. "Please come over here. Nothing's gonna happen if you're here. Help...
...Details of the interview, including a "hit list" and Mitch's description of the attack, have since seeped into the tabloids. Earlier Furth had told TIME, "There are people that knew [the shooting] was going to happen and others who should have known." A source has also told TIME that after the shooting, the two boys had planned to drive three or four hours to a cabin in the woods owned by the Goldens. For that they needed gas, but the three stations the duo stopped at as they drove to school refused them service because of their...