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Brennan wrote in his concurrence that Harvard’s method was more appealing to the public because it “proceeds in a manner that is not immediately apparent to the public.” Harvard’s privacy, as well as its status as a private university may therefore protect its affirmative action program even if—and, as it seems increasingly likely, when—the Supreme Court rules Michigan’s program is unconstitutional. (The court has often ruled private institutions exempt from scrutiny on this issue...
...It’s not just his sense of humor, but he has a tremendous ease of manner,” Blackbourn said. “He makes people feel that he listens to them—in that sense he has some of the qualities that Neil Rudenstine...
...shrugs. The sex toy king of China doesn't judge. It's bad for business. With his crew cut, oversize glasses, blue jeans and phlegmatic manner, 33-year-old Wu looks like a teenager slouching in the back of sex-ed class?but he's an empire builder emblematic of China's growing entrepreneurial class. His company, headquartered in the industrial city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, is China's only major government- licensed erotica manufacturer. The plant daily pumps out some 10,000 sex toys destined for bedroom drawers worldwide, but Wu and his Japanese venture partner have grander...
Three times he has won his country’s top reporting awards. And beneath his pensive manner he watches his native land with a sharply critical eye, bent keeping on Nigeria’s youthful democracy in line...
...would have thought my Department might have been brought more into consultation, and I am very concerned about the manner in which this arrangement has proceeded,” Classics chair Richard F. Thomas wrote in an e-mail...