The US Supreme Court recently struck down race-based affirmative action as a basis for college admissions. Americans are now busy entertaining new ideas about how to account for historical disadvantage suffered by ethnic groups. And well they should. Blacks, the group affirmative action was aimed at, suffered centuries of slavery
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Northern Reflections: A Sad History
This week, the United States Supreme Court takes up cases against the affirmative action programs at Harvard University and, my alma mater, the University of North Carolina. Paul Butler writes in The Washington Post: I got into Yale University and then Harvard Law School because of affirmative action. Some 20
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Bonus seats: Maybe our Parliament should use this Greek innovation?
I was surprised to read this today about the Greek ruleswhich gift an extra lift to the party that wins the most seats in an elec tion: ND came first in the polls but, in common with the centre-left Pasok – the other traditional party of power –
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