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Some council members have argued that it does not matter what a student's race or gender is, so long as he or she can represent diverse views. This view is doubly mistaken: first, in the presumption that one's personal background is irrelevant to council decision-making, and second in the idea that there is nothing inherently wrong with the council's being largely composed of white males...
Parents raised protests early in the search process, alleging that Murphy was the early favorite because of his Cambridge background...
...claims of having come from a troubled country only made Thernstrom think her just another "rich foreign student" talking of her nation's suffering while concealing her background...
...discoveries were only the beginning of their contributions. Public demonstrations, the writing of treatises and books and the teaching of both colleagues and students became the vehicles for their individual crusades to better the state of medical care. Among them, like a constantly humanistic refrain playing softly in the background, the credo of the ancient Greek physicians prevailed. Nowhere is that principle more eloquently expressed than in the memorable words found in Precepts, one of the books of the Hippocratic Corpus: "Where there is love of humankind, there is also love of the art of medicine...
Relying on the same epidemiological techniques used to track dangerous pathogens, Wintemute and his associates at U.C. Davis seek out patterns and trends in the data that federal and state governments keep on firearms: types of guns sold, who buys and sells them and the background of shooters and victims alike. Wintemute's 1994 study Ring of Fire, for example, takes a hard look at gunmakers around Los Angeles. It has been hailed as a major indictment of the cheapie pistols known as "Saturday-night specials," the weapons of choice of inner-city gangs. The California effort to impose tough...