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On Dec. 13, Judge Patrick J. Duggan of Detroit's Federal District Court upheld the University of Michigan's current affirmative action plan, which gives all black, Hispanic and Native American applicants a 20-point boost on the school's 150-point admission scale. Many liberals view the decision as...
The university promotes its system as a means of ensuring a "diverse" student body. Unfortunately, Michigan makes the awful mistake of assuming that skin color or geographic location necessarily determines a student's viewpoint. This is precisely the reason that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gets so angry when people...
The second of Richard and Rosemary Martinez's four children, McDermott exchanged his Hispanic surname for a slight variation on his middle one (McDermod) in 1980, four years after he joined the Navy. He served on the nuclear submarine U.S.S. Narwhal, an assignment that required rigorous psychological screening. However, says...
Partly it's a structural problem. The film is telling three distinct stories. One is about a judge from Cincinnati, Ohio, Robert Wakefield (Michael Douglas), who is appointed by the President to be the new national drug czar only to discover that his own daughter (well played by Erika Christensen...
He has been fast and, so far, deft: Three women. Two blacks. One Hispanic. Five white guys. George W. Bush is about half done with his Cabinet and if you look past the names, the range and the diversity, the gist so far is pragmatic and pro-business - with plenty...