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...vote in Gratz v. Bollinger, the justices overturned the admissions policy of the University of Michigan’s undergraduate College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA). That policy automatically granted underrepresented minorities 20 points out of the 100 necessary for admission...
...rededicate ourselves to this diversity by refining our undergraduate admissions system to comply with the Court’s ruling,” said Terrence McDonald, dean of Michigan’s LSA, in a statement to the press Monday. “We will put to work some of the brightest minds and most motivated people in the country, and the result, I am sure, will continue to be a model for all of higher education...
...have in the past set up workplace plans mostly for their own benefit and let employees participate only because the law says they must. Under the Bush plan, a small employer might not set up a workplace plan at all, because he could contribute so much to his own LSA and RSA. Workers could lose...
...Congress as flaws to be fixed rather than as deal killers. Unlike any previous scheme, Bush's plan has a shot at solving our country's biggest long-term financial problem: about half of us simply don't save. With streamlined tax-deferred options and no-questions-asked LSA withdrawals, Americans might feel they can save without locking up their money for decades. Fears that unrestricted LSAs would lead some undisciplined savers to ruin--they would bleed their accounts for frivolous reasons--may be well founded. But many, many more individuals, I believe, would be inspired to really save...
...many employees already know--that in a dynamic economy and labor market, employees have the ball," says Mercedes Saddier-Chetochine, director of research and development for the Association for the Employment of Managers in Paris, an employment-consulting agency. Small business employers like Jean Lathouwers, president of software producer LSA Delta in eastern Belgium, are learning that lesson painfully. "We have to pay new people more than they're worth," he says, "and the last to come are the first to go. We're moving toward a real American situation, and we're not ready for that...