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...select its student body--including economic standing, geographic origin, athletic and artistic achievement--they would turn back the clock to an era when minorities "were isolated and penalized for the color of their skin...or national ancestry." He recounted a revolting incident in 1934 when his black teammate, Willis Ward, voluntarily benched himself because the visiting Georgia Tech football team objected to competing against an African American. Ward's sacrifice, Ford wrote, "led me to question how educational administrators could capitulate to raw prejudice...
Ford's surprise declaration was part of a strategy by Michigan's president, Lee Bollinger, to recapture the moral high ground that affirmative-action supporters have lost to the likes of California's Ward Connerly. Bollinger insists that for a university, racial diversity is "as vital as teaching Shakespeare or mathematics." Under a color-blind admissions system, Bollinger fears, the proportion of black undergrads would nose-dive from 9% to just...
...watch the eclipse, while adherents to all manner of New Age traditions in England gathered on beaches to welcome the darkened sun as a profound spiritual moment. Muslims in Egypt stayed indoors on orders of their clergy, while in Gujarat, India, priests rang temple bells and sounded gongs to ward off evil spirits. However humans chose to make sense of it, the eclipse was a humbling reminder of nature?s power...
...Florida petition drive is aimed at putting a referendum on the ballot next year to bar state and local governments from using race in hiring, contracting and school admissions. It's the latest effort of Ward Connerly, the controversial mixed-race businessman who got similar measures passed in California in 1996 and in Washington State last year. He's made Florida his next battleground, and he plans to travel there this week to make a major speech. But Connerly hopes Florida will also be something more: a vehicle for pushing his anti-affirmative-action crusade into the center...
...series of targeted studies in Finland and the U.S. showed that beta carotene supplements don't ward off cancer at all. This doesn't mean that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables doesn't reduce the risk of cancer, says Harvard's Walter Willett, or even that carotenoids aren't protective. But, he concludes, "it looks like taking beta carotene in high pharmacological doses is not the right thing...