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Supreme Court to consider affirmative action in higher education
The justices will hear an appeal from a white student from Texas who seeks an end to 'racial preferences' in college admissions. A majority of justices appears likely to side with her.
Since the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, conservatives have looked forward to the day when the Supreme Court would take up a new challenge to the use of race-based affirmative action in the nation's colleges and universities.
The Santorum question: Is he too extreme for the middle?
On abortion, same-sex marriage and other social issues, he's the most conservative of the GOP candidates. But he'll need the swing vote to win.
Rick Santorum is winning the hearts of conservative voters with uncompromising social views that, he says, are drawn from the same well as his fiscal and environmental policies: a reading of America's founding documents that stresses their Judeo-Christian underpinnings.
Scientist Peter Gleick admits he lied to get climate documents
He assumed a false identity to obtain and distribute internal documents from the Heartland Institute, which questions climate change.
A noted California scientist and environmental activist has admitted that he assumed a false identity to obtain and distribute internal documents from a libertarian group that questions climate change.
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Mayor Villaraigosa’s Sights Set Beyond Los Angeles
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Gary May is the most senior worker charged and industry observers say that action is an indication that prosecutors are looking up the corporate ladder.
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New York Courts to Intensify Efforts to Prevent Foreclosures
Jonathan Lippman, New York’s chief judge, introduced the plan last week.
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Carla L. Peterson, the author of "Black Gotham, A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City."
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LAUSD substitute thrice accused of abuse moved to another districtThe substitute teacher quit after the third inquiry and started working in Inglewood schools. Police later found video of him molesting a girl in that district; he was charged, but he fled and is at large.<br/><br/>During five years as a frequent substitute teacher in...
Community colleges hit by $149-million shortfallOfficials have little flexibility in responding to the latest cuts because classes are already underway. A decrease in fee revenues and more aid to students complicate financial problems.<br/><br/>California community colleges were struggling Tuesday to absorb an unex...