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...disproportionate number of African Americans and Latinos are poor, but the majority of poor people are white-and more than a few are Asian. If race-based remedies are supplanted by class-based remedies, the number of African Americans attending elite universities, for one thing, will fall. Tom Kane, a Harvard economist, told me, "You'd need an economic affirmative-action program six times the size of the current racial preferences to [benefit] an equivalent number of African Americans." There's another step that would reduce racial and economic injustice: eliminate "legacy" admissions to colleges. Legacies-that is, the children...
DREAMGIRLS Show biz is so in love with itself, some-times it just has to sing. One of the most powerful self-addressed valentines was the musical Dreamgirls, which fictionalized the making and packaging of Diana Ross and the Supremes. The 1981 show, written by Tom Eyen and Henry Krieger and directed by Michael Bennett, now gets its own makeover--into a just-this-side-of-fabulous movie...
...been your messiest co-star: Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Sean Penn or the baby pig who plays Wilbur in Charlotte...
...booming music and excited voices slowly quieted down as supporters realized that presidential candidate Tom D. Hadfield ’08 was circling the room, trying to hear the long-awaited election results on his cell phone...
...Petersen-Sundquist ticket received 1,314 first-place votes, or 37.5 percent of the votes, beating out second-place finishers Tom D. Hadfield ’08 and Adam Goldenberg ’08, who received 1,025 first-place votes, or 29.3 percent of the votes...