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...their fight against AIDS, African nations can take the passive path of asking for help from the big pharmaceutical companies or the proactive course of taking all means necessary to address the crisis [MEDICINE, March 19]. American-based pharmaceutical giants have not upheld the fine tradition of scientists like Alexander Fleming and Marie Curie, who had no greed. The onus rests on African nations to import or, better yet, produce cheap generic AIDS drugs. LULUFA KUNDUL VONGTAU Kaduna, Nigeria...
Bollinger previously told The Crimson that if the U-M affirmative action policy were not upheld, society would run the risk of sliding "back into a world in which we don't attend to [civil rights] issues." He compared the implications of the current lawsuit to the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education {ITALICS...
...ruling directly contradicts a December decision by U.S. District Court Judge Patrick Duggan, which upheld the school's affirmative action program in undergraduate admissions...
Bollinger compared the Michigan affirmative action lawsuits to the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public schools should be integrated. If the U-M affirmative action policy is not upheld, he said, society runs the risk of sliding "back into a world in which we don't attend to those issues...
...area is gray - the Roe v. Wade of campaign finance, 1976's Buckley v. Valeo, upheld limits on contributions, because of the "actuality and appearance of corruption resulting from large individual financial contributions." (The court found campaign spending limits, meanwhile, unconstitutional on free-speech grounds.) But while the fattest target would be Paul Wellstone's limits on issue-advocacy groups, the McConnells of the world - who still say the problem isn't too much money in politics, it's too little - will still be gunning for the whole shebang...