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...Today's decision should weaken that charge, but Mark Tushnet, a professor at Harvard Law School, says these issues may be the next legal battleground for school diversity. "School systems are going to try to achieve these (diversity) goals," he explains, "and they'll use proxies, and it will be litigated." And that means the Supreme Court will have yet another school integration case on its hands before we really know what schools can do to achieve "true racial equality...
...least 15% of electricity from renewable sources by 2020. The Senate Tuesday is expected to vote again on that provision - considered essential by environmental groups and most Democrats. Also this week, the Senate will vote on an amendment sponsored by Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, that would weaken the fuel efficiency language in the bill. The current measure would require all vehicles to achieve 35 miles per gallon by 2020. Levin's alternative would give cars until 2022 to reach 36 miles per gallon, and light trucks (including SUVs, the only automobile category American companies still dominate) until...
...Afro-American Studies Visiting Committee met twice, sparking controversy for its recommendation to change the status of Afro-American Studies. This prompted Ewart Guinier, the department’s first chair, to argue that then-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Henry Rosovsky was trying to weaken the department by refusing tenure to Isaac and by insisting that only joint appointees (that is, professors who were not solely tied to the Afro-American Studies department) receive tenure...
...Republican stump speech. He tells a Chamber of Commerce lunch in Rochester, N.H., about how he successfully applied business principles like "strategic auditing" to the problems of Massachusetts. And then he hits the Reaganite stations of the cross: "I believe Republican policies will strengthen America, and Democratic policies will weaken it." It's the same old strength: stronger military, stronger economy (through lower taxes), stronger families. "You know," he often says, very Reagan, "there are people out there who actually believe America is great because of its government." Gasps and groans. "Well, we have a great system of government...
...international relations. A trained physician, Kouchner founded the M?decins Sans Fronti?res (Doctors Without Borders) relief group in 1971, and used the diplomacy skills he learned in humanitarian crises to launch a political career. Socialist opponents have called Sarkozy's recruitment of Kouchner a ploy to co-opt and thus weaken the left ahead of June legislative elections. Supporters counter that the pick is proof of Sarkozy's commitment to seek public and political consensus as he modernizes France...