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...vote, the court struck down the districts' plans. Three justices joined Chief Justice John Roberts' opinion saying that, in schools not intentionally segregated, the desire for racial balance isn't enough to trump the Constitution's general ban on treating people differently because of their race. Justice Anthony "Swing Vote" Kennedy agreed with the striking-down bit, but he wrote a separate opinion saying schools could consider race as a factor if they did so in ways precisely gauged to achieve diversity. The districts' plans were too crude - Seattle had only two categories: white and non-white - and too ambiguous...
...coveted free agent and Ellen DeGeneres is America's sweetheart. The notion that gays must be segregated out of the military for the sake of our national security must strike Americans younger than, say, 40 as simply weird, just as we of the previous generation find the rules of racial segregation weird. (O.K., run that by me again: they needed separate drinking fountains because...
...going. When opponents of gay rights talk ominously about a "gay agenda," they are not completely wrong. There has been an agenda in the sense of a long-term strategy, not unlike the carefully plotted strategy of Thurgood Marshall and others in the civil rights movement that ended formal racial segregation. It was a brilliant decision to start with the military rather than attempt to outlaw discrimination generally or push right away for gay marriage. Twenty years from now, maybe sooner, gays will have...
...wars in Vietnam and Iraq. Indeed, the primacy of Rumsfeld and his patron Dick Cheney has created a deep wound. Their constant undermining of the U.S. intelligence community, the putdowns of "old Europe," their impatience with U.N. inspectors, the assumption that might made right-and the hints of racial and religious superiority inherent in these beliefs-all sent a clear message to the rest of the world that America believed itself innately superior to friend and enemy alike, that we didn't need to listen, not even to our allies. The next President will have to find dramatic and public...
...city that is now 37% black and 26% Latino, the trick is not to simply replace retiring white men with young white men. Even with the international push over the past 20 years or so, the archdiocese struggles to reflect its flock in the racial breakdown of the parishioners and those who tend to them. While about 90% of the active priests are white, only about half of all congregants are white, with 40% Hispanic or Latino, 4% African American, and 4.5% listed as Asian or "other." So just as the Church went on a global hunt for priests...