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...different section of constitutional law. In a stinging defeat on an issue which Bollinger has championed, U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Friedman ruled in late March that the Michigan law school had to abandon its affirmative action policy because it was “indistinguishable from a straight quota system...
...three-year-old. To help him reach his quota of 11 hours a day, lately I've been letting him doze in the car while I drive the girls to their after-school activities. But that means he often stays up later than his sisters, which puts his parents at risk of a breakdown. Owens suggested we end the late-afternoon car naps and instead take our son to his room well before then and help him find his midday circadian trough, one of two low points humans experience in energy level each day. (The other...
Friedman also argued that the law school's use of racial criterion was "indistinguishable from a straight quota system...
...country's estimated 30 million Christians charged that they were being marginalized because the poor and low-caste faithful could not claim "untouchable" status. And being a member of the "scheduled castes"?jargon for India's downtrodden?brings benefits, like privileged access to schools and a quota of government jobs. (Government officials at their most legalistic say Christians don't have castes.) The Parsis of Bombay, descendants of refugees from Iran and one of India's most influential business communities, were also incensed that their Zoroastrian religion was not listed on the census form. And in insurgency-plagued Kashmir...
...taps in a dispute with the United Nations over the sanctions regime that puts control of Iraqi oil revenues in the hands of the international body. Although Baghdad quickly resumed its supply, it is now pumping only 600,000 barrels a day, 1.7 million barrels short of the quota set by the U.N. program that allows Iraq to sell oil in order to buy food. Saudi Arabia's Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, whose leadership made OPEC a world power during the '70s, warned Thursday that the cartel may yet be blindsided by Iraq, as Saddam Hussein prepares...