Word: racial
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...jury of five white men and one white woman deliberated for less than four hours yesterday before deciding against a female employee who attempted to charge Harvard with racial and gender discrimination...
...pleased with today’s ruling,” University Spokesman Joseph Wrinn said in a press release. “It supports what we have said from the beginning, that racial and gender discrimination were not a factor. Employment at Harvard is based on the specific work skills and work history applicants bring to specific jobs. We have always believed that to be the case and today the jury has agreed...
Student organizer Jennifer N. Wynn ’06 said she hoped that the Harvard Corporation would see that “the student body has surpassed all racial, ethnic and special interest divisions to make the genocide in Darfur a humanitarian issue with which we want Harvard to be connected only in a constructive...
...comprehensive collection of King’s writings and speeches, not just the ones that fit into our rose-colored vision of history and quote King not just to talk about how far we have come, but also to comment on the long road ahead—with racial disparities just as entrenched, American foreign policy gone awry, and a vision of common humanity increasingly relegated to grainy protest footage from the 1960s...
...Democrats come to their dilemma honorably. It dates back to the civil rights movement, when federal courts had to enforce federal law in states that refused racial integration. But the courts soon wandered into unlegislated gray areas. They imposed forced busing to achieve school integration, allowed racial preferences in hiring and school admissions, extrapolated a constitutional right to privacy and declared abortion legal in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case (and more recently, on the state court level, allowed gay marriage). Many of these were worthy decisions, but they were never voted on. Over time, as the Democrats became...