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...case was Bakke vs. California, and the Supreme Court ruled that while strict quotas were illegal universities could use race or ethnicity as "plus factors" in admissions, that is, if two equal candidates are competing for one slot, race can be the deciding factor...
...defending a black man against rape charges in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Finch does so fervently but loses the case. Matsch describes Finch as "the opponent of oppression, the paradigm of propriety, the dean of decent citizens and the core of his community." Those are the strict ideals Matsch expects his court to live...
...straight-ahead New Orleans style. But one?s suspicion that the result might be dutiful and dull, the musical equivalent of a five-part series in the New York Times on wage stagnation, proves groundless. ?Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton? rescues its idiom from both the dead end of strict revivalism and the cornier precincts of Dixieland, reinvesting it with swing and individuality and reminding us why this sensual, pleasurable music was once called ?hot.? What we have here, believe it or not, is 62 minutes of great make-out music. What a nice change of pace it is to hear...
...against larger women," an indignant Kadden told The Times. "I was shocked and mortified." The 48-year-old Kadden, who at the time was sporting brown Lycra leggings and a loose, cactus-embroidered white shirt, dismisses as "fattism" the chic department store's response that her attire violated its strict code against extreme forms of dress. The security guard who first spotted Kadden's garb thought that her stretched-to-the-breaking-point leggings were actually panty hose, a Harrods spokesman said. Nor does the Knightsbridge store see the point in Kadden's claim that, as a Harrods purchase...
Blair's historic achievement was to exorcise the voters' fear of Labour. They could put him in power confident in his pledges that taxes will not go up, spending will be kept in strict control, Thatcher's antiunion laws will remain in place, the privatization of Britain's state assets will continue, and socialism is dead, buried and forgotten. This was, in essence, a constitutional vote by the people to keep the two-party system alive, to insist that the other fellow be given a chance. It was a vote for fair play, balance, honesty, high seriousness and better ethical...