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What has academic administrators around the country so worried is that they know rulings like the UGA decision could dramatically change the racial makeup of their campuses. The Berkeley campus of the University of California saw this firsthand when it was forced by California's Proposition 209 to switch to race-blind admissions. Underrepresented minorities in the student body dropped sharply, from 25% to 11%. At the University of Texas School of Law, the number of black first-years fell to just four the year after the school was ordered to adopt race-blind admissions--from 38 the year before...
...windows and saw the debris falling, and sheets of white building material, and then something else. "There was a body. It looked like a man's body, a full-size man." The features were indistinguishable as it fell: the body was black, apparently charred. Someone pulled an emergency alarm switch, but nothing happened. Someone else broke into the emergency phone, but it was dead. People began to say their prayers...
...windows and saw the debris falling, and sheets of white building material, and then something else. "There was a body. It looked like a man's body, a full-size man." The features were indistinguishable as it fell: the body was black, apparently charred. Someone pulled an emergency alarm switch, but nothing happened. Someone else broke into the emergency phone, but it was dead. People began to say their prayers...
...Hoyer hopes that message will resonate. He's in the running to be his party?s House whip - and he'd much prefer it to be majority whip than minority whip. Right now, Republicans hold a slim lead in that chamber, but only a half dozen seats have to switch in 2002 to give Democrats control...
...Some outside factors have influenced Danish furniture design as well. During World War II, the country imported almost no wood, so that cabinetmakers had to switch from traditional dark woods like mahogany to Denmark's native beech trees - these blond woods remain very much in favor today...