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More simulcasting meant more money, so Crist negotiated deals with many tracks to start carrying simulcasts of NYRA’s races. In 1994, the total amount bet on NYRA races??or the “handle” in racing parlance—was $205 million. The next year, it was $589 million...
...exclusion of all but black, Hispanic and American Indian applicants is blatantly discriminatory. The exclusivity of the business community, a problem which Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) seeks to remedy, does not only affect members of the black, Hispanic and American Indian communities. Socioeconomically disadvantaged students of all races??black, Hispanic, white, Asian and others—face similar obstacles to entering the world of finance. Excluding them from the possibility of admission to the SVMP program serves only to reinforce and amplify the difficulties that such students have in gaining access to highly lucrative jobs...
Mahoney mentioned a study conducted by Professor of Education and Social Policy Gary A. Orfield, in which a majority of Harvard and Michigan law students said that “students of different races?? provided a “clearly positive element of their educational experience...
...brief cites several Harvard-linked studies, including one conducted by Professor of Education and Social Policy Gary A. Orfield, in which a majority of Harvard and Michigan law students said that “students of different races?? provided a “clearly positive element of their educational experience...
These results should spur us to pay more, not less, attention to ballot initiatives before the next election. Ballot initiatives are currently treated as second-class electoral issues, largely ignored in favor of headliners like gubernatorial races??headliners whose arcane differences in political philosophy are, in fact, often far less exciting than the issues at hand in ballot initiatives. The more attention they are given and the less their authors’ hidden aims remain relatively unexplored in the press, the better-poised ballot initiatives will be to fulfill their purpose as vital, direct tools for an informed...