Word: sweatt
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...JAMES SWEATT (D) 2745 Blackstone, Dallas...
...contenders: Democrat James Sweatt, a thoracic surgeon, was the first African-American president of the Dallas County Medical Society. He opposes building more jails and supports public education. Lisa Kitterman is the only new Republican in the race. She advocates abolishing payroll taxes and instead funding Social Security through a consumption tax. Other candidates, none expected to do much more than take votes away from the frontrunners, include Democrat Marvin Crenshaw and Independents Ada Granado, Steven Hammond and Lisa Hembry...
...BEEN ALMOST 47 YEARS SINCE a black man named Heman Sweatt and his lawyer, Thurgood Marshall, brought a case before the Supreme Court that forcibly integrated the University of Texas. So it was oddly appropriate last week that the University of Texas at Austin was once again the defendant in a sweeping, precedent-setting court ruling on the subject of race. This time, though, the university was chastised for promoting racial diversity, not racial exclusion...