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Brennan wrote in his concurrence that Harvard’s method was more appealing to the public because it “proceeds in a manner that is not immediately apparent to the public.” Harvard’s privacy, as well as its status as a private university may therefore protect its affirmative action program even if—and, as it seems increasingly likely, when—the Supreme Court rules Michigan’s program is unconstitutional. (The court has often ruled private institutions exempt from scrutiny on this issue...
Although Summers misspoke when he said that Michigan’s admissions process was the same as Harvard’s, his was at most a white lie. Truth be told, Harvard’s method is only a more sophisticated, less numerical version of Michigan’s. They may appear different, but to paraphrase Brennan, just because one system adds points to admit disadvantaged minority applicants and the other adds a non-numerical preference, does not make one constitutional and the other...
...eventual extinction, their language as dead as Latin? To find out, I put the Clie and both versions of the Treo to the test. I'm a fairly fast typist and a two-year Graffiti artist, so either system could work for me. But I needed answers. Which method was faster? Which led to fewer mistakes? And which felt more comfortable...
...Once we realize that it is a human problem and not just one for the Roman Catholic Church, we will be able to make progress in dealing with it. In the past, a calm, investigative approach has usually led to solutions to problems facing our society, and that method should work again with this one. (THE REV.) WILLIAM D. TURNBULL Stillwater...
...into military action by a well-timed terrorist attack. State elections are due by October in Kashmir, and New Delhi has hopes that they will take some steam out of the indigenous militancy. Many of the candidates are former insurgents won over by the government. (India's time-honored method of defusing insurgencies is to woo tired separatists to run for election, after which they can get their hands on loosely-watched government coffers...