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Like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, McWhorter did not discover that racial preferences are the ruination of black folks until he had benefited from them. He writes that because his race was one of the factors that got him a doctoral fellowship at Stanford, "I was never able to be as proud of getting into Stanford as my [nonblack] classmates could be." But he didn't turn down the fellowship. Instead, he wants to spare future generations of blacks such anguish by immediately abolishing affirmative action, thereby bestowing on them "the gift" of competing as equals...
There's a time to guard your privacy, and then there's a time to win, dammit! Proving her parentage, CHELSEA CLINTON, 20, announced through a spokesperson this week that she will be taking a semester's leave from Stanford University in the fall to help her mom get elected to the Senate. Chelsea--the most potent familial ornament in American politics since Jackie Kennedy--has proved to be a campaign crowd pleaser, though whether she will do any stumping of her own or merely accompany her mother on the New York trail is unclear. While sending Mom back...
...college fair to give the kids a chance to talk to 30 other colleges from as far away as Stanford and the University of Chicago," she says. "Secondary School Program students do not have a better chance of getting accepted by the College...
Clark also wanted to reward Stanford, whose labs he used while engineering the chip for his Silicon Graphics workstations. And this was the sort of philanthropic gesture that would still leave him time to have fun running companies, building yachts and flying helicopters...
...worth. He hopes his gift will spur other tech billionaires to action, particularly Yahoo founders Jerry Yang and David Filo, who don't discuss specifics of any giving they may have done--and who Clark believes have been too frugal. "These guys actually ran the Yahoo servers out of Stanford," says Clark. "They should be giving something back. These guys are young, but they've got more money than me. Or take Larry Ellison; he should be doing more." But Clark remains optimistic: "These new-money guys, first they have to get a couple of houses, the plane. At that...