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...briefs, Bush does not argue that the court should overturn Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the 1978 Supreme Court decision permitting some race-conscious policies in university admissions. But he does say that Michigan’s undergraduate admissions policy—which assigns points to applicants based on a wide variety of factors including GPA, SAT scores, demonstrated leadership, legacy status and race—is effectively a racial quota and is impermissible because Michigan hasn’t tried race-neutral alternatives...
...well-meaning researchers. Though Harvard is not yet violating the law because none of its research uses restricted substances on a scale that requires registration with the government, it is quite conceivable that the two policies will come into conflict in the future. FAS should spearhead efforts to overturn this jingoistic law in court...
...Philadelphia, school officials and students are squaring off in court over the issue. A group primarily composed of inner-city students, assigned to alternative education under a 2002 state law designed to improve school safety, has filed a class action to overturn it. The sweeping statute requires alternative placements for those who commit a range of offenses--whether in school or not--after they have successfully completed sentences in juvenile-detention facilities. The students say the rule punishes those whose misdeeds weren't violent, as well as those who did nothing wrong at school. The plaintiffs also fear they will...
...last six years, Finneran has conducted budget negotiations virtually by himself, encouraged his supporters to overturn a term limit rule that would have made the upcoming two-year term as speaker his last and obstructed the implementation of the Clean Elections law. As much as we’d like to believe that those days are over, Finneran has a long way to go before the people of Massachusetts will believe that Wednesday’s promises of transparency and reform are more than empty resolutions...
...week, Iran was rocked by some of the largest student protests since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. More than 5,000 students gathered at the Modaress Training University in Tehran, and demonstrations spread to the provincial cities of Tabriz, Isfahan, Urumiyeh and Hamedan. The protesters called for the state to overturn the death sentence of Hashem Aghajari, a lecturer who said Iranians should not blindly follow the words of clerics. Yesterday, when Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the judiciary to review Aghajari’s sentence, the students accomplished one of their goals. But they also called...