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...promote a “compelling governmental interest.” Specifically, the Court must decide whether promoting diversity in higher education is a sufficiently important goal to justify the use of race and whether the university’s race-conscious policies are, in fact, the ideal means to advance that goal. Both public universities and private universities that receive federal funding are bound by these constitutional standards when they employ race in admissions...
Rather than selecting a fraternity matriarch, Sigma Chi, on the other hand, elects a “Sweetheart” to be the object of boyish admiration. Jean-Pierre R. Jacquet ’05, current Consul of the Harvard chapter, says that the ideal sweetheart is a girl who is cool and fun and who is friends with all of the members of the fraternity. As a result, the fraternity usually elects a long-term girlfriend of one of the brothers...
BRADFORD: You shouldn't have an interest deduction in my ideal system. It would slowly go away as you move from one system to the other, if the politicians could stand the heat...
...wife were diagnosed with SARS; three days later, families living in apartments five floors directly above and below the brother's apartment had also developed the potentially deadly pneumonia. Investigators speculate that Hong Kong's high-rises, with their sealed windows and often leaky sewage pipes, might be ideal transmission grounds for viruses...
...Magic, written by Joyce Carol Oates with music by composer Carson P. Cooman ’04, derives directly from the hero of the title, a crafty magician. Dr. Magic invites a couple to the stage as volunteers and his interaction and experimentation on them scratch the seemingly ideal surface of their lives together...