Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh called her "an affirmative action case extraordinaire, " although affirmative action doesn't help you graduate summa cum laude from an Ivy League university.
Local elections were due, in which, as an affirmative-action measure, Shahabpur was to be reserved for a dalit pradhan.
"This was not a quota case or (an) affirmative action case, " she said.
As far as what political agenda he means, Lobach says he isn't sure, but says maybe an aggressive affirmative action program.
Such experiences are why some black Colombians support a government plan to present an affirmative-action bill to Congress later this year.
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In the current term, the court is deciding a case involving an affirmative-action policy at the University of Texas, and the court may reverse at least part of a 2003 ruling that allowed some consideration of race in university admissions.
And he's in a very difficult position, especially on an issue like affirmative action.
And therein lies the fastest way to put an end to affirmative action without relying on the courts or the ballot box.
Price controls broke down, and affirmative action was an excuse for Mr Mugabe's friends and relatives to demand a share of the fruits of other people's labours.
He has perfected an aggressive new form of affirmative action relating to photo-opportunities: he is always surrounded by minorities, even when he is in the whitest of suburbs.
The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear an appeal of a case involving affirmative action only nine years after it approved limited application of the race-based policy in higher education.
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In response, affirmative-action opponents developed an initiative to amend the Michigan Constitution to prohibit race- and sex-based discrimination or preferences in public education, employment and contracting.
Even if most opponents of affirmative action seem to produce an uncertain sound these days, from California there continues to come a ringing call to arms.
An experiment designed to test perceptions of affirmative action found that independent observers rated companies significantly lower when they were told the top executives were African-American graduates of prestigious universities, instead of white.
Proponents of affirmative action say these arguments sanctify an unjust status quo.
Many times outside of sports affirmative action is decried as being an unfair opportunity instead of using merit, (inexplicably somehow different from legacy admissions privileges).
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And Fernandez, an aspiring actress, faces the dilemmas around affirmative action.
In an effort to accommodate court rulings which have restricted affirmative action programs as well as the administration's desire to maintain the programs, the new Justice Department contracting guidelines may end some race-based preferences.
Still, because the unbiased adviser has an incentive to lie to recommend in favour of affirmative action even if he believes it is harmful then the net effect on welfare is less clear.
If minority admissions continue to fall at Texas's state universities, the state's attorney-general, Dan Morales, will be urged to mount an attack on the appeal court's anti-affirmative-action ruling, which he will probably lose.
There, the justices are weighing whether the University of Texas' affirmative-action program, which the school says can give an edge to some minority applicants, violates the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause.
For example, they support affirmative action, which, they say, has led to an increase in the number of black professionals in America, and has helped ethnic Malays in Malaysia and various minorities in India as well.
While he is an African-American in a party dominated by white protestants, Keyes opposes affirmative action, but criticises the party for ignoring the black vote.
Nobody doubts that Wall Street is an old-boys club, but is it the duty of taxpayers to fund affirmative action for financiers?
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"Affirmative action by the government to remove discrimination, inequality and disparity is quite an important step in a healthy democracy, " the public interest petition which challenges the government plan said.
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