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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This lack of evidence leaves affirmative methods to obtain diverse populations in a precarious legal position as conservative benches roll back methods of racial remediation...
Amid the barrage of domestic and international criticism, Tung was condemned as a puppet--or else as a high-handed authoritarian--ready to roll back democratic reforms at Beijing's command. "This is the first real test of what the 'one country, two systems' slogan means," says Michael DeGolyer, chairman of the poll-taking Hong Kong Transition Project. "People want to know whether Tung is Beijing's representative in Hong Kong or Hong Kong's representative in Beijing...
...forbidding racial quotas but allowing schools to use race as a factor in admissions--remains the law of the land. Most schools see real value in maintaining a racially diverse student body. But Texas and California, for different reasons, find themselves on the leading edge of a movement to roll back even such nonquota efforts at affirmative action. The entire Texas university system was forced to change its policies when the Supreme Court let stand an appeals court's 1996 ruling in favor of four white students who sued U.T. law school for racial discrimination. This has caused significant drops...
...honest and ardent as his lyrics: "The record was no f__ing good until now. There was no way I was going to make a record that was no good. You keep going until you get it. Thirty years ago, I was part of a world-famous rock-'n'-roll band. It's silly to think I'd ever be there again. But the one thing I can control is that I can still make a full-fledged bad-ass record. Can I do it in one year? I'll try. But if it takes five years...
Buffalo will be grazing on the high grass of the Wichita Mountains when Vetter's vans roll in. The herds had been exterminated from this homeland, but were re-established in October 1907, when the Federal Government shipped some buffalo in on railroad cars from the Bronx Zoo. For centuries, Native Americans went to the Wichita Mountains on vision quests. The campers who join Vetter will understand...