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...suit alleges that the plan illegally limits the numbers of white students attending any one school through unfairly configured school zones and by providing priority placement to minority students...
...Regents of the University of California, doesn't bother trying to restore affirmative action. Instead it argues that if the U.C. system is going to use race-blind admissions criteria, it really has to be race blind. In calculating GPAs, Berkeley gives extra weight to grades in advanced-placement classes. The problem is, more than half of California schools--many in poor and minority areas--don't even offer these classes. A student who aces every class offered in his high school in the barrio and ends up with 4.0 could lose out to a student from Beverly Hills...
...Successful Author: Brian Baird (D., Wash.) got at least $15,000 in royalties for The Internship Practicum and Field Placement Handbook, a text on clinical internships...
...made another left and entered. A few seconds later a short, high-pitched scream (not robotic) indicated that Cye had found its mark. Upon inspection, I saw Stein standing on his sofa. "I fear it," he said, pointing at the orange robot. After Cye mastered the Steinway ("learning" the placement of walls and natural barriers, such as piles of discarded newspapers), I could automatically recall it to my office. From then on, it was a simple task to dispatch Cye whenever necessary. I could even have harassed Stein on the hour by invoking a handy timer function in the software...
...Successful Author: Brian Baird (D-Wash.) got at least $15,000 in royalties for "The Internship Practicum and Field Placement Handbook," a text on clinical internships...