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Minneapolis Star Tribune - Bill Maxwell: Affirmative action isn't something to regret New gadgets; same old Constitution Jason Lewis: Pointing fingers and clawing at our wallets Chuck Kelly: Garbage out: The coming political-ad wars By The Numbers I read Supreme Court Justice ...

Boston Globe - NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has a 15-cent price tag stuck to his Yale law degree, blaming the school's affirmative action policies in the 1970s for his difficulty finding a job after he graduated. Some of his black ...

Baltimore Sun - Towson's decision to tinker with its admissions standards was criticized by some education experts, who said the university was using SAT scores as an "affirmative action" program for white males, who tend to score highest on the test. Admissions ...

Politics.co.uk - The Home Office has rejected calls for the Race Relations Act to be amended to enable police forces to actively target black and ethnic minorities for recruitment. This follows a speech from black police sergeant Keith Jarrett, who argued non-white ...

U-Wire.com - After successfully backing Proposal 2, a ballot initiative passed in November that banned affirmative action in Michigan, the American Civil Rights Institute is gearing up to place similar measures before voters in Arizona, Nebraska, Oklahoma ...

Detroit News - Much of the debate over Proposal 2 has focused on the University of Michigan, the only state university that admittedly used affirmative action in undergraduate admissions. But the impact of the new constitutional amendment can be felt around the ...

Boston Globe - GIVEN AN increasing minority population and key locations where minorities are actually the majority, neither Republicans nor Democrats can risk alienating voters by being insensitive to gender or racial concerns. For that reason, both parties should ...

Global Politician - "What do you call a black man with a Ph.D.?" Malcolm X famously asked, forty years ago. He answered, "A nigger!" What was once true of an educated black man, is today true in academia of an educated white man with the outcast status of adjunct ...

Affirmative action may be on ballots

San Francisco Gate - My fundamental belief is that we need to move forward with the City College campus," said Newsom, speaking at the offices of Chinese for Affirmative Action. The school has scaled down its original proposal for one 16-story building, Day said. Now the ...