| New Salvos on Affirmative Action
The data reveal large differences in grades and standardized test scores, and indicate that black applicants are much more likely to be admitted, even with lower grades and test scores. These are the sort of data that have been influential in other states that have considered — and passed — statewide bans on affirmative action. "The people of Michigan have a right to know the extent to which discrimination is taking place," said Roger Clegg, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, which is releasing the data today and planning a series of events in Michigan to publicize the figures. David Waymire, a spokesman for One United Michigan, which is leading the fight against the referendum, said that the data being released were "worthless" because they did not include breakdowns by economic class.
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She set out as she had done every Sunday afternoon for years. She locked her door, turned to the weather, and held the hand rail as she stepped carefully down from the porch. Once on the ground she adjusted her hat on her gray head. As this was a winter day in the Christmas season, a cold day, she also adjusted her coat. Had it been raining, she would have pulled a large lawn and leaf bag, as if it were a poncho, over her head and upper body. Most times she shouldered her hand bag. This day she also shouldered a bulging plastic shopping bag. She walked along the dirt road that would lead her to the paved road that would lead her to the highway. Her only company was her shadow, small and indistinct at her feet. She walked without the deliberate care of someone unfamiliar with the terrain, but neither was her gait quick.
Walter Bowart, 68; co-founder of the East Village Other
Walter Bowart, who channeled the cultural chaos of the 1960s into print as the co-founder of one of the era's first underground newspapers, died Dec. 18 in Inchelium, Wash. He was 68.
The cause was colon cancer, his family said.
Bowart helped launch the biweekly East Village Other in Greenwich Village in 1965, a convulsive year when the Beatles, the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War were rocking American society.
Bowart and a small band of colleagues used the paper to push the boundaries of convention with articles about sex, drugs, music and pressing social issues, presented in an experimental format that changed from issue to issue.
The paper reported on the exploits of many of the figures who became icons of the psychedelic era, including Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg.
Reviews in: 'Mermaid" fish-fried, but Denver's Boggess praised
They made it clear after Denver that despite universal panning of the show's book, costumes and bizarre set design, no major changes would be made for New York. The only appreciable difference Thursday was the addition of a third tyke to the rotating role of Flounder. The newcomer, Brian D'Addario, performed for critics. Tepid critical response to Disney's "Beauty and the Beast," "Aida" and even "Mary Poppins" had no negative impact on ticket sales. And if ever a Broadway musical were built to survive critics' sabers, it's "The Little Mermaid." The show sold virtually every available seat for its Denver run and even when the show was in its pre-opening Broadway preview period, it shattered box-office records at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Its $1.3 million gross in ticket sales for the week ending Dec.
Stop Chasing High-Tech Cheaters
Opening up The New York Times last week, I stumbled across an article that outraged me. "Colleges Chase as Cheats Shift to Higher Tech" detailed the struggle of some academics against new, high-tech forms of "cheating" that are based in Internet use, iPods, cellphones, and PocketPCs. The tone of the article was one of dismay at the collapse of morality in education. As I watched the article climb the "most e-mailed list" on the Times Web site through the day, my outrage increased. .
SFGate: Raiders Silver and Black Blog
A motion penalty, barely visible to the naked eye, erased another Raven smothering on 4th-and-1. The final stroke of luck was a defensive holding penalty on another fourth-down pass play, negating one more potential Baltimore death blow. It was an awful call, one of the worst ever to decide a game. NFL refs, incompetent boobs in some cases, never make that call to decide a game. The Pats still needed to score and they did, even though replays showed that Pats WR Jabbar Gaffney was juggling the ball as he went out of bounds. True to form, the gutless replay judge did not overturn the call on the field, lest anyone think the worst officials in any sport in any country be put in a negative light. This lucky escape by the Patriots might have trumped the Tuck Rule game.
Makati’s generosity to elderly
Makati today can rightly boast of having the country�s best programs for elderly citizens. City hall employees affectionately refer to them as the �se�orito� and �se�orita� citizens of the country�s financial capital because Mayor Jejomar wants to treat them with old-fashioned reverence and affection. Under Mayor Binay, Makati�s elderly citizens enjoy privileges above and beyond those required by the national law. Seniors can watch movies for free in all cinemas. At city government expense, Makati�s seniors get to watch noontime TV variety shows live in the ABS-CBN and GMA studios under Makati�s �Lakbay Saya ni Lolo at Lola� program. Birthday cakes The city delivers a cake to their homes on their birthday and golden wedding anniversary; gives those who are poor a midyear and Christmas gift of P1,000 and sponsors free field trips and excursions to museums, historical and scenic sites in Metro Manila and other parts of the country.
Christian Democrat Cunek example of modern Czech segregator-press
I think that an unemployed person should get money for three months, but then he/she should come and apply for public benefiting work. Who does not want to work, must die of hunger." Nemecek says that not even Miroslav Kalousek, party former chairman who is considered a right-winger, would have dared say something like this. This year, Cunek moved a majority of rent non-payers, most of them Romanies, to "indestructible" container-like flats with washable plaster and transferred the others during the night far away from Vsetin from where they will not return because they do not have money for bus, Nemecek writes. Svehla writes in Respekt that the situation of the Romany minority, which is about 400,000 strong in the 10 million country according to estimates, has been worse and worse in the Czech Republic since the change of regime in 1989.
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