Word: poste
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Still, cascading is a new fact of life, and it is not likely to end any time soon. Perhaps the clearest sign that California is entering a post-affirmative action era is how civil rights groups have responded to cascading. Their flagship lawsuit, Rios v. 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...
...this post-affirmative action world of cascading exists mainly in California and Texas, where the University of Texas, responding to a federal court order, has also stopped considering race in admissions. But other suits challenging racial preferences are under way elsewhere in the U.S., notably at the University of Michigan. Other states are considering Prop. 209-style initiatives, among them Florida, where a drive is on to put an anti-affirmative action referendum on the 2000 ballot. If cascading goes national, what impact will it have on America's college students? The answer is unfolding in California, on campuses like...
...also went out into the desert to film some sequences. The desert contains the longest fence ever built, more than twice the length of the Great Wall of China--3,307 miles of wire-and-post fencing, running dead straight to the horizon in both directions. It is known as the Dog Fence because it is meant to keep dingoes inside northern Australia and out of South Australia, so they won't massacre the sheep. If the wind blows your hat over the fence, it's gone forever. The Dog Fence has only one gate every 12 miles...
...revised a hastily dashed off Post-it note to my wife ("I'm at the gym--back by 7:30 or so") to read: "I'm engaged in my daily somatic aggrandizement. I'll see you when the crepuscular light imbues your hair with its magenta indolence...
...euphemistic phrase for "black person"), I have been stopped by the police in Moscow six times within four months to have my passport checked. I have also regularly seen darker-complexioned men who do not have the luxury of an American passport being carted off to the local police post while their whiter brethren scurry on their...