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Allowing women to live in the "hallowed Yard," she said, was "just the completion of a process" that began in 1970, when the quota on admitting women to the College was lifted...
...Senate Finance Committee begins to unveil the findings of a six-month probe, and TIME correspondent Sam Gwynne says the IRS may deserve the public lashing it will receive. The committee will charge that the agency targets lower-and-middle-income people for audits and uses a quota system to rate agents. Some analysts are asking if the service's behavior is the result of Capitol Hill's own confusing and capricious tax laws ? but as Gwynne explains, the Congress-made-me-do-it defense won't fly. "The IRS has all kinds of people out there...
Proponents of racial preferences are fearful the Court will choose the second or third option. Last year, the U.S. Third District Court decided in Hopwood v. the University of Texas that the quota system employed by the Texas Law School was illegal, but it didn't stop there. The Third District judge also ruled that all racial preferences in admissions are unconstitutional...
Rudenstine's cibcern that the court might expand its ruling beyond the narrow scope of the specific case is perhaps founded. In the case Hopwood vs. the University of Texas last year, the U.S. Third District Court's decision transcended the question of the case-whether the quota system employed by the University of Texas Law School was Constitutional-to outlaw any kind of preferences in admissions whatsoever...
Rudenstine's concern that the court might expand its ruling beyond the narrow scope of the specific case is perhaps founded. In the caseHopwood vs. the University of Texas last year, the U.S. Third District Court's decision transcended the question of the case-whether the quota system employed by the University of Texas Law School was Constitutional--to outlaw any kind of preferences in admissions whatsoever...