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Over the last two and a half decades, Harvard's department of government has made an enormous effort to diversify its graduate enrollment and to redress past discrimination through a policy of affirmative action towards minorities. Yet lately this policy has come under increasing fire, most recently from an article in The Weekly Standard, a new conservative journal. The article, while pointing out serious problems in the department of government's financial aid program, is wrong in its charges against the department's affirmative action policies...
...good news is that a well-designed, long-term study of HRT is finally under way. Last year, in an attempt to redress a historic shortfall in research on women's health, the National Institutes of Health launched the $628 million Women's Health Initiative. In the HRT portion of the study, which will involve 27,500 women, half will be randomly assigned to HRT, half to a placebo. Researchers will follow the women for at least eight years and compare rates of heart disease, osteoporosis, breast cancer and other ailments. When the results are reported, doctors and patients...
...that a federal program offering government contractors financial incentives to use minority-owned firms as subcontractors unfairly discriminated against his business. Writing for the majority, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the government must show that racial preference programs "serve a compelling government interest" and will be used to redress specific and identifiable effects of past discrimination. Applying this "strict scrutiny" standard, says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen, means "a definite setback for affirmative action. The standard is very difficult to meet." Under this ruling, for example, the government would have to show that setting aside a certain percentage...
Wellington also volunteered for a year as a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of ColoredPeople's legal redress clinic in Boston...
...disproportionately minority, are faced with poverty, few educational resources and crime. Over the past twenty Years, while the inner cities have descended into increasing levels of violence, drug abuse, and desperation, the Federal government has played a numbers game that helps Black elites far more than it does redress the needs of truly disadvantaged...