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Nebraska has cut spending for the 2003 budget three times over the past year, including closing a minimum-security prison in Hastings. It reopened the next day as a federal holding facility for people detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Missouri is considering cutting the sentences of inmates to save money, and Illinois has closed prisons and mental-health facilities, prompting critics to warn of more crime...
...year class based on composite score. This policy is substantially the same as Harvard’s; it merely quantifies the factors that Harvard considers. In a point system, applicants still compete directly against one another for the same spots using the same criteria, and there need be no minimum quota set on the number of minorities. To outlaw the use of race in a point system would mean that many universities would be powerless to use affirmative action merely because of logistical deficiencies—making it impossible for some schools to actually realize the benefit of having...
...plaintiff Barbara Grutter argued in her final brief to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, critical mass “is a concept based on numbers.” The fact that critical mass is a vague range of acceptable percentages of minority students means that there is a minimum permissible level of minority representation—a concept that is effectively a racial quota, and wrong for the same reason...
...This year we actually cut spending,” Powell says. “I try to do a diligent job at keeping extraneous expenses to a minimum...
...even more so when you leave,” says Gabby, who admits to cheating regularly on her post-college boyfriend. “I’m in New York now and I always notice this real sense of expectation. There’s always this bare minimum standard that all of us should be able to land a guy who went to an Ivy League school, will hook up with us, treat us well and take us out to nice clubs. When you’ve made it through Harvard, you sort of feel like you deserve that...