Professor Assails Anti-Bias Program An unlikely critic says his new study shows that affirmative action hurts black law students. By Stuart Silverstein Times Staff Writer November 15, 2004 UCLA law […]
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Category: A.D. Powell
Links, summaries and snappy commentaries on news and media by author A.D. Powell.
Race-Based Medicine Continued…
Race-Based Medicine Continued… The New York Times November 14, 2004 By NICHOLAS WADE RESEARCHERS last week described a new drug, called BiDil, that sharply reduces death from heart disease among […]
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The Political Conversion of New York’s Evangelicals
The Political Conversion of New York’s Evangelicals The New York Times November 14, 2004 By ANDREA ELLIOTT The signs are all around. Storefront churches dot the commercial landscapes of the […]
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Liberal culture under threat in Dutch religious and ethnic crisis
Liberal culture under threat in Dutch religious and ethnic crisis Ian Traynor in Amsterdam Friday November 12, 2004 The Guardian The Dutch government yesterday moved to reverse a long tradition […]
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Racial Segregation in Prison
Editorial: Racial Segregation in Prison The New York Times November 14, 2004 The Supreme Court heard arguments recently in a challenge to California’s policy of segregating inmates by race in […]
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Race-Based Medicine
Genetics for the human race November 2004 Nature Genetics This month, in a special issue on race published by the journal Nature Genetics, several geneticists wrote that people can generally […]
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In Mourning Slain Filmmaker, Dutch Confront Limitations of Their Tolerance
In Mourning Slain Filmmaker, Dutch Confront Limitations of Their Tolerance The New York Times November 10, 2004 By CRAIG S. SMITH AMSTERDAM, Nov. 9 – Anger percolated through the crowd […]
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Does Affirmative Action Hurt Black Law Students?
Does Affirmative Action Hurt Black Law Students? The Chronicle of Higher Education By KATHERINE S. MANGAN A new study that challenges a ‘cherished’ admissions practice has critics lining up for […]
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Crackdown on radicals as Dutch mourn film maker
Crackdown on radicals as Dutch mourn film maker The Telegraph By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard and Joan Clement in Amsterdam (Filed: 10/11/2004) The Dutch government declared war on Islamic terrorists yesterday as […]
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More on the Jim Crow drug
Heart drug for blacks hard to swallow Clarence Page November 10, 2004 WASHINGTON — At last, a drug of our own. That was my initial reaction to the big news […]
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