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Maureen E. Mahoney, the attorney for University of Michigan Law School, explicitly referred to Harvard’s plan as a model plan without a quota, and then compared it to Michigan’s law school policy of considering race as one factor in admissions...
Scalia was referring to evidence that in the early 20th century, Harvard used a quota system to restrict the admission of Jewish students, according to Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree, who attended the oral arguments. But Ogletree said in April that Scalia’s comment had little relevance to arguments today...
...Xiaochun (Tang Yun), 13, a violin prodigy, to Beijing in hopes of promoting the boy's career. He's gifted, no doubt, but in big-city music competitions, a bribe decides the winner. Nevertheless, Xiaochun gets a good teacher--Jiang (Wang Zhiwen), a sympathetic bohemian with a Dickens-novel quota of pet cats--and befriends an effervescent girl-on-the-make named Lili (Chen Hong, who offscreen is Chen's wife...
...large class like Linguistics 80, it is especially important that requirements are clearly laid out for students, so that they can be clear on what is expected of them. In addition, since Linguistics 80 attracts many students who are non-concentrators, a quota is harmful because the mere idea of it scares students away. Quotas are wrong because they are arbitrary and increase the chances that students will get grades lower than what they deserve. Furthermore, they’re not at all necessary to achieving the wider task of raising standards—if that indeed is the goal...
Under Glaeser’s model, communities meeting a threshold percentage of affordable housing would receive state subsidies. Those unable or unwilling to maintain the prescribed quota would be fined...