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...Sixteen fewer than Harvard after 40 minutes...
...Asian-Americans are disproportionately targeted in the Boston and Massachusetts areas," she said. "In 1992, sixteen percent of hate crimes were against Asian-Americans, who only make up five percent of the population...
Such a warped evaluation procedure goes far beyond what the Supreme Court deemed reasonable sixteen years ago in Bakke V. Regents of the University of California. This seminal decision proclaimed that universities are allowed to use an applicant's race as a "plus factor," but not as the determining factor in admission decisions...
...Sixteen years later, I'm still a wishful thinker. I always look on the bright side, probably because I am deeply anxious about the possibility that I'll err on the low side and someone will call me a cynic. Call me a cynic...
NATO planes bombed a target near Sarajevo as punishment to the Bosnian Serbs for seizing weapons from a U.N. depot. At least one antitank gun was confirmed hit, the Pentagon said. Sixteen NATO planes executed the attack, at the request of the U.N. The Bosnian Serbs apparently learned their lesson after the NATO strike and agreed to return the weapons they took. The latest attack represents a tightening of the noose around the Bosnian Serbs, who have few friends left. According to TIME's Central Europe bureau chief James L. Graff, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic today enforced...