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2009-07-04: Headlines
Caribbean Net News: Commentary: Haiti's culture and politics of social exclusion 2009-07-04
... was the calm weather before the storm. Taking shelter with an affirmative action program towards the most afflicted ones would be a wise initiative indeed!
Telegraph.co.uk: Self-help books 'can have the opposite effect' 2009-07-04
They are designed to lift a person's low self-esteem and push them into positive action but a new study suggest they can actually have the opposite effect.
Financial Times: A test of legal logic for US civil rights 2009-07-04
For about four decades, the US has had a system of racial preference (affirmative action) meant to remedy the dire consequences ...
Manila Bulletin: Brown, white and the writing in between 2009-07-04
There was no affirmative action but I know I benefited from earlier struggles.'' He was also the first Filipino in the San Francisco Chronicle who could ...
The Independent: Activists Vow to Fight Proposal to Scrap Bonus Points For Female ... 2009-07-04
Government introduced the points for affirmative action to help more girls join university; however some sections of the public argue that it is no longer ...
The Gympie Times: Racism has become an exercise in dissonance 2009-07-04
It is easy to dismiss New Haven as an example of affirmative action gone mad but the danger highlighted here is all too real.
Middletown Press: City should quickly promote firefighters 2009-07-04
... these judges have and how they can justify their rulings, even if the most qualified applicant is unjustly denied their promotion. Affirmative action.
The Malaysian Insider: Dr Mahathir: Plan to open up economy won't help 2009-07-04
Listed companies will no longer be required to allocate 30 per cent of their stake to Malays as part of an affirmative action programme for the country' ...
Indianapolis Star: What Ricci means 2009-07-04
But not affirmative action. Ricci raised the bar considerably on overt discrimination against one racial group simply to undo the unintentionally racially ...
Scripps News: Editorial: It's time for TV cameras in Supreme Court 2009-07-03
... congressional power; executive power; defendants' rights -- habeas corpus, Guantanamo; civil rights -- voting rights, affirmative action; abortion.
Contra Costa Times: Contra Costa Times July 3 Letters from our readers 2009-07-03
My hope is that the district attorney will thoroughly investigate the facts and take appropriate action if it is determined that laws have been broken.
New America Media: Iranian Women Bring Century of Activism to Protests 2009-07-03
The men at the universities are in a minority, so much so that recently the government tried to have reverse affirmative action to make room for the men.
New America Media: Supreme Court Ruling on Conn. Firefighters May Aid Sotomayor Attackers 2009-07-03
The Court's predictable five to four, narrow decision is par for the course for any case that remotely touches on affirmative action issues.
????: Obama to remind Putin in person the Cold War is history 2009-07-03
In any case he said affirmative action was neither the panacea — nor the problem — that it's often made out to be. With most experts in agreement th ...
UK Express: SELF-HELP BOOKS 'CAN BE HARMFUL' 2009-07-03
They are designed to lift self-esteem and promote positive action with statements such as “I am a lovable person”, or “I will succeed”.
News & Issues: In Ricci, Supreme Court Majority Saw No Moral Complexity - About 2009-07-03
Title VII isn't an affirmative action statute; it's the nondiscrimination statute that makes up the heart of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Atlanta Journal Constitution: Obama, like Bush, seeks to expand executive secrecy 2009-07-03
... advanced degrees on his own, now all we have is a professional leech (ie community orgranizer) who got his degrees through pre-Ricci affirmative action.
Atlanta Journal Constitution: Case important, but not for Sotomayor 2009-07-03
But not affirmative action. Ricci raised the bar considerably on overt discrimination against one racial group simply to undo the unintentionally racially ...
Tehelka: The Veil's True Shroud 2009-07-03
It can use affirmative action to encourage more education and bring minorities and the marginalized onto a level playing field.
IFR Asia: Malaysia buries sons-of-soil scheme 2009-07-03
The relaxation of a decades old affirmative action programme in Malaysia that benefited the majority Malay ethnic group, may persuade more home-grown ...
Daily Monitor: President Barack Obama and Global Africa 2009-07-03
Indeed, many of these policies are likely to yield greater benefits to African-Americans than even affirmative action which has tended to benefit white ...
Business Day: Not by race alone 2009-07-03
THE US Supreme Court was right to strike down a purely race-based instance of affirmative action on Monday. The decision marks a clear limit on what ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Obama sees narrow decision 2009-07-03
Obama, a former constitutional law professor, said the court was "moving the ball" on affirmative action by telling public and private employers they could ...
NOLA.com: cnn's Soledad O'Brien will moderate Essence Music Festival panel ... - The Times-Picayune 2009-07-03
If people feel like racial discrimination isn't a very serious problem, do you start to see efforts at rolling back things like affirmative action?
Atlantic Online: Color-blindness, Racism, and Disparate Impact 2009-07-03
Also, I'd just like to point out that the impact of affirmative action has been pretty minimal. Black folks are still underrepresented everywhere ...
AllGov: When to Recuse—The Sotomayor Standard vs. The Scalia Standard 2009-07-03
Critics of Sonia Sotomayor can knock her for her liberal views or rulings regarding affirmative action, but if there's one thing the US Supreme Court ...
Martinsville Bulletin: Goode will decide soon on 2010 race 2009-07-03
... at various places in Virginia and North Carolina about political issues, including what he said is a need to reform immigration and affirmative action laws.
The South Florida Times: The Politics of Blackness: You say why Republican party; I say ... 2009-07-03
No, affirmative action was NOT a Democratic initiative. It was created by black Republican Arthur Fletcher, the “father of affirmative action,” who was ...
Madison Eagle: Feminist editor to recall struggle for equality 2009-07-03
“New Directions for Women” focused on a range of issues critical to women's progress in all facets of society, including affirmative action in the workplace ...
Lower Hudson Journal news: Why conservatives are gunning for Judge Sotomayor 2009-07-03
Some of their ilk called her a racist and an intemperate affirmative action baby. What really has set them off is that a qualified, Latina woman who speak ...
New Socialist Group: A CRITIQUE OF LINDA BURNHAM'S “NOTES ON AN ORIENTATION TO ... 2009-07-03
... single-payer health care, for amnesty and an easy road to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, in defense of affirmative action and social programs.
The Ann Arbor Chronicle: Split DDA Board Agrees on Splitt 2009-07-03
Outcome: The resolution passed with eight votes in the affirmative, with Greff and Hall dissenting. If subsequently Greden's vote were to be challenged ...
IFR Asia: Waste of effort 2009-07-03
The plan of course was presented as a massive affirmative action plan to advance the welfare of the country's “native” Malay and other indigenous people ...
Dickinson Press: Sotomayor could provide civics lesson 2009-07-03
But as is always the case, such hot-button issues as affirmative action (her Hispanic heritage and past statements may suggest she is for it) and aborti ...
Calcutta Telegraph: THE CHANCELLORS' VICE 2009-07-03
I am not opposed to a certain amount of affirmative action with regard to faculty recruitment, either. Historically, education in India has been monopolized ...
WEAR: Obama tries to lay groundwork for upcoming Moscow trip 2009-07-03
... his own proposal to indefinitely hold some terror detainees. And he says he thinks the Supreme Court is "moving the ball" away from affirmative action.
2009-07-03: Headlines
The Malaysian Insider: Will Umno buy Najib's vision? — Carolyn Hong 2009-07-03
Has Malaysia made a clean break from affirmative action? Rita Sim of Insap, the think-tank of the MCA, says he was forced to act by circumstances.
Contra Costa Times: Contra Costa Times July 3 Letters from our readers 2009-07-03
My hope is that the district attorney will thoroughly investigate the facts and take appropriate action if it is determined that laws have been broken.
FinalCall.com: In Defense of “Identity Politics” 2009-07-03
... on some issues than a White man and description of herself as an “affirmative action baby” as evidence that she is a captive of identity politics.
New America Media: Supreme Court Ruling on Conn. Firefighters May Aid Sotomayor Attackers 2009-07-03
The Court's predictable five to four, narrow decision is par for the course for any case that remotely touches on affirmative action issues.
New America Media: Iranian Women Bring Century of Activism to Protests 2009-07-03
The men at the universities are in a minority, so much so that recently the government tried to have reverse affirmative action to make room for the men.
Daily Kos: Sonia Sotomayor: Why her "experiences" will be a good thing ... 2009-07-03
Obviously, this case will be a centerpiece of the confirmation debate with conservatives painting her from everything from a racist, an affirmative acti ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution: Case important, but not for Sotomayor 2009-07-03
But not affirmative action. Ricci raised the bar considerably on overt discrimination against one racial group simply to undo the unintentionally racially ...
Blogger News Network: Finding Meaning in the New Haven Firefighter's Case 2009-07-03
So it is hard ever to oppose a specific affirmative action, particularly if you're white, without being criticized for it on that basis, as Adam Serwer ...
The Australian: July 3: Politics briefing 2009-07-03
Complicating the situation, Labor's affirmative action policy would mean that the three women who have nominated - sitting MP Michelle O'Byrne ...
Lower Hudson Journal news: Why conservatives are gunning for Judge Sotomayor 2009-07-03
Some of their ilk called her a racist and an intemperate affirmative action baby. What really has set them off is that a qualified, Latina woman who speak ...
BayNewser: Senior Editor - Broadway Books 2009-07-03
... and strong negotiation skills are necessary. Thank you for your interest in Random House. Random House is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
New York Times: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Aptitude 2009-07-03
... in the words of Sotomayor, with policies like affirmative action) is that we esteem the ideal on which they're based, namely that of equal opportunity.
New York Times: For Hispanic Firefighter in New Haven Bias Suit, Awkward Positi ... 2009-07-03
... found himself celebrating amid an awkward racial dynamic: As the lone Hispanic among the 18 plaintiffs who had challenged an affirmative action policy ...
Westport-News: TEAM likes Supreme Court choice 2009-07-03
... but in a very different place from Sotomayor on the issue of affirmative action for minorities, according to one of the discussion groups.
Malaysia Kini: 'What kind of ambassadors are Todt and Michelle?' 2009-07-03
Discrimination based on functionality may be justified in certain circumstances in affirmative action programmes but never on race.
Malaysia Today: MCA slams PAS chief 2009-07-03
Wong warned that PAS' continued calls to maintain bumiputra affirmative action policies would drive away domestic and foreign investors.
Business Day: Not by race alone 2009-07-03
THE US Supreme Court was right to strike down a purely race-based instance of affirmative action on Monday. The decision marks a clear limit on what ...
New Hampshire Business Review: 'Where are the women?' 2009-07-03
In addition to setting a goal of 6.9 percent female participation in each trade category, these regulations also set out 16 steps to affirmative action th ...
Politico: Bloomberg slams Sessions' "baseless" attack on S'mayor 2009-07-03
... of documents pertaining to Sotomayor's pro bono work for the organization, has accused PRLDEF of adopting "extreme" positions on affirmative action.
Above the Law: Roberts Court takes narrow road to right 2009-07-03
Issuing constitutional decisions uprooting the Voting Rights Act and affirmative action, he said, "would have had powerful symbolic significance ...
The Malaysian Insider: A step forward with thousands to go 2009-07-03
Affirmative action was one of several major contentious issues in the 2008 general election. Both its basis and implementation suffered from relentle ...
Civilrights.org: San Francisco Commits Money to the 2010 Census 2009-07-02
Through the advocacy efforts of Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), a San-Francisco-based advocacy organization, the San Francisco Board of Supervi ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution: No time for race 'cowards' 2009-07-02
Barack Obama's presidency, the new high-water mark of equal opportunity, is an ideal time to review such questions as whether affirmative action is the most ...
People's Weekly World: COMMENTARY On racism, Supreme Court rules for status quo 2009-07-02
Also the city of New Haven is now majority African American and Latino and it seems to me that an affirmative action program in their fire department ...
Washington Post: Obama to tell Putin: Time to move past Cold War 2009-07-02
In any case he said affirmative action is neither the panacea - nor the problem - that it's often made out to be. - With most experts in agreement th ...
Arizona Daily Star: Comments on this Story 2009-07-02
President Barack Obama said Thursday the Supreme Court was “moving the ball” on affirmative action in this week's decision favoring white firefighters ...
KVOA.com: Arizonans will have chance to possibly ban affirmative action 2009-07-02
She became the face of the affirmative action debate after she says the University of Michigan passed over her, in favor of a minority.
KWTX: President Sits Down For Wide-Ranging Interview 2009-07-02
AP Interview: Obama on Affirmative Action AP Interview: Obama on Foreign Relations AP Interview: Obama on Iraq AP Interview: Obama Reflects on Michael ...
New York Times: Republicans Question Sotomayor's Role in Puerto Rican Group' ... 2009-07-02
During that era, the group pursued lawsuits over issues like affirmative action, bilingual education, and gerrymandering election districts to increase ...
Earthtimes (press release): Vanguard Shareholders Vote on Genocide-Free Investing Proposal ... 2009-07-02
For the 21 Vanguard funds reporting results, affirmative votes ranged between 7 and 17%. Question 3, the first ever shareholder proposal included on ...
Malaysia Star: Now, we're getting our act right 2009-07-02
Now, the Government has announced the much awaited meritocracy aka national scholarship, opening the window for a more just and equitable affirmative acti ...
Newsweek: Obama on Putin, Pies and GITMO 2009-07-02
In perhaps his most interesting comments, Obama weighed in on the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action this week, in which it decided in favor of ...
The Militant: In firefighters case, high court deals blow to affirmative action 2009-07-02
In a 5-4 decision that weakens the labor movement, the US Supreme Court ruled June 29 in favor of 17 white firefighters and one Latino ...
2009-07-02: Headlines
Washington Post: Black Reporters on the Beat of Michelle Obama 2009-07-02
The first lady, she wrote, "serves as a symbol of middle-class progress, feminist achievement, affirmative-action success and individual style.
E Kantipur: Minority report 2009-07-02
There are different models of reverse discrimination or affirmative action, which could be applied to promote equal opportunity and set the balance right.
NJ.com: Combined Board of Education members sworn in to historic panel 2009-07-02
... was appointed Affirmative Action Officer, 504 Compliance Officer, Emergency Management Officer and Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance Officer.
Arizona Daily Star: READ ALL ABOUT IT: Dillinger captured in Tucson 2009-07-02
That was his last affirmative move for a while as Ford's pistol landed on his head. Simultaneously Eyman and Mullaney reached the scene.
OpEdNews: The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming ... 2009-07-02
... relationship between democracy and the law, the role of race and gender in the political process, equity in college admissions, and affirmative action.
United Press International: The almanac 2009-07-02
In 1986, the US Supreme Court endorsed numerical hiring goals for minorities, rejecting the Reagan administration view that affirmative action be limited ...
USA Today: What people are saying about Supreme Court decision 2009-07-02
Jesse Jackson, in the Chicago Sun-Times: "Affirmative action is justified on the premise that diversity is good for us as a society, not that diversity ...
Hickory Daily Record: Contracts, rulings and playing around 2009-07-02
The request provides the lower court majority with a measure of insulation, considering the judicial history of discrimination cases and affirmative action.
Bizcommunity.com: Inclusive economies for women needed in development 2009-07-02
Policies needed to allow for women to enter traditionally male dominated sectors include “affirmative action policies of various kinds,” Falth noted ...
Pajamas Media: Judge Sotomayor and The New York Times: A Strange Omission 2009-07-02
How does that, if at all, color what stance she would take towards questions of affirmative action, and other legal issues that come before the court?
Meriden Record-Journal: 'Equal rights are for everyone,' says 'New Haven 20' firefighter 2009-07-02
Farrell said Monday's ruling will make it harder for minority plaintiffs to succeed in future affirmative action cases, and Hispanics may have a hard time ...
FT Alphaville: SABMiller in black empowerment move 2009-07-02
SAB Miller, known for pioneering affirmative action policies under the apartheid regime, is offering 4% of its South African subsidiary SAB to its 9000 ...
The Malaysian Insider: Malaysia dares to get more inclusive — The Straits Times 2009-07-02
... benefit the Bumiputera poor who continue to stagnate despite the affirmative action initially enshrined in measures such as the New Economic Policy?
Examiner.com: July 4th/ Civil Rights Act 2009-07-02
After years of affirmative action programs opening the doors of offices and schools that ordinarily would have been shut – and African American students ...
Bloomberg: Olson Joins Boies at Court So Gays May Marry as Civil Right 2009-07-02
Olson, 68, who has argued 55 cases before the Supreme Court, has fought against causes such as affirmative action and campaign-finance regulation.
Town Hall: Firefighter Case Shows Seamy Side of Racial Politics 2009-07-02
Now that the SCOTUS has overturned Ricci, it's time to get rid of Affirmative Action and Title VII for good. It's amazing how quiet the Liberals are on th ...
FinalCall.com: Conservatives Use “Racism” to Confuse and Exploit 2009-07-02
To consolidate their success, conservatives launched a furious assault against affirmative action and race-based remedies enacted to overcome the effects ...
Village Voice: Times Square Tea Party Denounces Obama, Media, Imaginary Tax Rate ... 2009-07-02
The first speaker was rightwing columnist Deroy Murdock (one thing you have to say about Obama -- he's been a one-man affirmative action program for black ...
Colorado Daily: Turning blind eye to racial bias 2009-07-02
The ruling casts a pall on all affirmative action, and confirms that judicial activist Chief Justice John Roberts is on a mission to end what he calls ...
Albany Times Union: Race and the law 2009-07-02
The Supreme Court has adjourned until the fall, leaving the rest of us to sort out where affirmative action and civil rights laws stand after nine of ...
Daily Kos: Ricci and the SCOTUS Race Neutral Preference 2009-07-02
I would prefer to carry out most of affirmative actionesque policies on an economic basis but its not always going to be convenient or helpful to do so.
Terre Haute Tribune Star: Readers' Forum for 7/2 2009-07-02
The major reason was affirmative lending for poor people on housing they could not pay for, and the idea that everyone should have a house even when they ...
RantRave | Published Opinion.: A New Approach To Affirmative Action 2009-07-02
Affirmative action has sparked heated debate. On one side it is asked why those born today should pay for the sins of yesteryear. On the other side ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release): Federated Farmers awards 2009-07-02
In the best traditions of the Kiwi do-it-ourself approach, Tom is a visionary who along with others took affirmative action on water back in 1981.
Human Resource Executive Online: Bridging Racial Divides 2009-07-02
That stigma, unfortunately, can trickle into people's opinions of any minority workers -- not just those who are beneficiaries of affirmative action ...
Islam Online: Beyond the Burqa * 2009-07-02
Yet for all of France's commitment to liberty and equality Governments over the years have failed to endorse any form of affirmative action programs th ...
Malaysia Today: What Has Happened to Hindraf? Can Paham replace it? 2009-07-02
Hence to Hindraf, PR can never do enough for Indians as long as it does not give special affirmative action to Indians. Affirmative action based on any ...
Emerging Markets: SABMiller to sell 10% stake of South African unit to black investors: - ISI 2009-07-02
... on Wednesday it will sell 10% of its South African unit to black investors in a deal worth USD 750mn to meet the country's affirmative action rules.
TheNewsTribune.com: Racial bias: Don't fight fire with fire 2009-07-02
... and chiefly because the city fears litigation. That looks too much like the panic-driven racial quotas that helped give affirmative action a bad name.
The News Journal: Should race matter when rectifying past errors? 2009-07-02
Even Justice Clarence Thomas, himself a beneficiary of affirmative action, thinks such "benign prejudice" is "racial discrimination, plain and simple" ...
OneWorld.net: Electoral Fraud's Unexpected Gift 2009-07-01
... through the Constitutional Reform Dialogue Mechanism (CRDM) and the Gender and Affirmative Action coalition, and it is also coordinating efforts ...
Daily Kos: It's my 61st Birthday!!! 2009-07-01
In 1967 I was 'awarded' Affirmative action jobs as a female, under the Civil Rights Act, even a though I was a European descendant, not based just upon my ...
Washington Post: Latest Palin Controvery Just a Subset of War Over Direction of GOP 2009-07-01
Looks like the magic NE GRO has lost his "magic", and there is nothing the liberal media can do to stand up this affirmative-action president.
FOX 21 Online: Kohl says reversal won't affect confirmation of Supreme Court nominee 2009-07-01
Kohl says he's not bothered to see Sotomayor overturned, and contends the affirmative action issue will not be a major issue at the nomination hearings.
Calcutta Telegraph: WHY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION 2009-07-01
What we need is affirmative action that will help women to act more extensively against the prevalent bias so as to develop their own unrecognized ...
Jackson Free Press: [Editor's Note] Death of Affirmative Action? 2009-07-01
Overturning an affirmative-action decision by an appellate panel, the Court ruled in favor of a group of white firefighters who were passed over for ...
Seattle Times: David S. Broder / Syndicated columnist Race: The issue that ... 2009-07-01
Neither the voting rights case out of Texas nor the affirmative action hiring case out of New Haven, Conn., said that explicitly.
h: Kerry Washington – Hot in Cracktown 2009-07-01
So I grew up talking about desegregation around the table or talking about affirmative action or talking about abortion rights. That kind of stuff is wh ...
Wall Street Journal: Najib's Affirmative Action – II 2009-07-01
Malaysia's affirmative action policies were instituted in the 1970s and are now so firmly entrenched that it's difficult for any politician to attack them ...
Examiner.com: What is a Mormon? 2009-07-01
Here is a brief, affirmative statement that summarizes "What is a Mormon?" A Mormon is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Vanguard: Safe sex: who is responsible (2) 2009-07-01
Women should therefore, in the spirit of affirmative action, prove to us that they are flesh and blood. Spirituality without physical chemistry is pure ...
La Voz Nueva: Bennet predicts smooth sailing for Sotomayor 2009-07-01
Conservatives, including television talking head Pat Buchanan who called her “an affirmative action choice,” have criticized Sotomayor's nomination ...
Back Stage: Is the TV Screen Fading to White? 2009-07-01
According to Rebecca Yee, SAG's national director of affirmative action and diversity, the guild's 2006 Casting Data Report shows a 1.2 percent increase ...
Altavista: Illegal immigration costly to nation 2009-07-01
Former Congressman Virgil Goode, an opponent of both affirmative action and illegal immigration, in an appearance at the University of North Carolina ...
Christian Science Monitor: Malaysia's Najib targets affirmative action 2009-07-01
... has begun chipping away at affirmative-action policies for ethnic Malays in a bid to attract more foreign investment and revive a recession-hit economy.
Daily Kos: Ricci and the Death of Disparate Impact Analysis 2009-07-01
... an objective that will completely strip Congress of its ability to redress racial imbalances, completely destroy affirmative action in any form ...
Atlantic Online: The Limits of Law: Ricci and the Elusive Quest for Workplace Fairness 2009-07-01
It's basically impossible to encourage affirmative action (to avoid "disparate impact") without discriminating against other workers.
Media Monitors Network: The rights of refugee women and children in Islam 2009-07-01
Children and women, according some interpretation of sharia, and being more vulnerable, should be treated with affirmative action (positive discrimination).
Columbus Other Paper: Inspiring the black vote 2009-07-01
Whether its civil rights, desegregation or affirmative action, “these altruisms have not been provided by the private sector,” Gresham said.
U.S. News & World Report: Obama's Presidency Biased the Supreme Court's On Ricci 2009-07-01
There's good reason to be tired of race-based politics if one remembers that President Kennedy coined the term "affirmative action" almost 50 years ago as ...
2009-06-30: Headlines
USA Today: Our view: Firefighters ruling draws new lines on race and hiring 2009-06-30
Affirmative action has been deeply controversial since President Kennedy sketched its outlines in a 1961 executive order, but it has changed just ...
Detroit Free Press: Supreme Court decision on racial preferences could affect Detroit 2009-06-30
"I think this case reflects the philosophical divide on the court" over affirmative action, said Larry Dubin, professor of law at the University ...
Atlantic Online: The Day In Politics, 6/29 2009-06-30
We also pondered why the SCOTUS decision won't bring back affirmative action as a hot-button issue; and the warm response Obama got from LGBT attendees ...
Channel 7 Daily News: SJC Offering Refunds for Unauthorized Fee Hike 2009-06-30
They call themselves the Parents for Affirmative Action and complain about the quality of education, are lobbying for the establishment of a parent teacher ...
Connecticut Law Tribune: Decision Could Affect Private Employers 2009-06-30
The lesson, said Connecticut lawyers, is that public and private sector employers with affirmative action programs or diversity initiatives can't disregard ...
Meriden Record-Journal: Local opinion: Decision reaches some middle ground 2009-06-30
... president of the Wallingford Coalition for Unity, is worried the decision is more evidence that the tide is turning against affirmative action.
Kansas City Star: Critics of affirmative action try again to get on Missouri ballot 2009-06-29
AP JEFFERSON CITY | The sponsor of an initiative limiting affirmative-action programs says he plans to submit a new version after a court ruled against h ...
CBS News: Polling Shows Support For Affirmative Action 2009-06-29
For over a decade more Americans have favored affirmative action programs than opposed them. Six in ten Republicans oppose such programs, while 67 percent ...
eTaiwan News: Malaysia plans scholarships free from racial rules 2009-06-29
The country set up a wide-ranging affirmative action program in the early 1970s to help Malays catch up with the more affluent ethnic Chinese minority ...
DiversityInc.com (subscription): One CEO's Fight for Domestic-Partner Benefits 2009-06-29
DiversityInc: We know that Steelcase has been involved in national issues, and your support of the University of Michigan in its case for affirmative acti ...
RushLimbaugh.com (subscription): Angry Obama Aims to Get Even 2009-06-29
The affirmative action quotas, whatever you want to call it, the intent was never to find equality or to properly compensate, and I first learned this all ...
CBS News: Politics Today: Sanford Saga Continues 2009-06-29
"Her position in the Ricci case essentially supports racial preferences embodied in affirmative action plans, said Michael Dorf, a professor at Cornell Law ...
Examiner.com: A perspective on the SAT from France 2009-06-29
Ever since 1996, when affirmative action was outlawed under Proposition 209 in California, the University of California has been looking for ways ...
Examiner.com: Supreme Court Reverses Obama SCOTUS nominee 2009-06-29
As well as quite possibly ending affirmative action altogether, this in effect ends the practice of reverse discrimination. Affirmative action was ...
NewsByUs: The Intolerance of the Left: An Interview with Harry Stein 2009-06-29
For liberals, the left of center position on a vast range of issues – abortion, gay marriage, affirmative action, taxation, even national security – is ...
United Press International: UPI newstrack topnews 2009-06-29
... on a promotion test were thrown out because no blacks passed, the decision could affect the long-term fate of affirmative action in the United States.
Huffington Post: Supremes Fanning the Firefighter Flames 2009-06-29
In this particular Pick-Your-Poison case, he sided with the forces who contend that affirmative action has simply replaced discrimination with reverse ...
2009-06-28: Headlines
Contra Costa Times: Getting rid of SAT requirements at elite universities 2009-06-28
Ever since 1996, when affirmative action was outlawed under Proposition 209 in California, the University of California has been ...
Los Angeles Times: Harmonious week for the Roberts court 2009-06-28
On issues such as abortion, affirmative action and Guantanamo, the justices remained sharply split 5 to 4. Last week, however, saw the Roberts approach ...
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: UA campuses consider benefits for domestic partners 2009-06-28
... believe the existing health plan contradicts their particular university's affirmative action plan, nondiscrimination policy or diversity goals.
Eastern Arizona Courier: Legislature could cut spending for special interests 2009-06-28
We'll get to vote to do away with affirmative action programs and to keep our right to get medical treatment with our own money.
New Straits Times: RITA SIM: What it takes to make 1Malaysia a success 2009-06-28
... which worked to dissociate race from specific professions, 1Malaysia must now dissociate race from the outcomes of affirmative action policies.
Worldwide Faith News (press release): UCC - Pulitzer Prize-winning writer on diversity in the black ... 2009-06-28
"While we're looking at Affirmative Action, let's look at the policies that allowed George W. Bush to get into Yale with a C average as a legacy admission.
Malaysia Today: Media Statement by Tony Pua 2009-06-28
The policy on meritocracy should be complemented with an affirmative action policy based on needs, and not race. However, the goodwill and sincerity ...
Los Angeles Daily News: Reverse or rehearsed discrimination in college admissions? 2009-06-27
But, are universities really violating anti-affirmative action laws by granting racial preferences to minority applicants? Taking a deeper look at actual ...
Verde Independent: Voters to get final say on affirmative action programs 2009-06-27
PHOENIX -- Arizonans will decide next year if they want to outlaw affirmative action programs and any special programs or preferences for women ...
Monthly Review: Iran's Business Elite, Too, Is a "Dissident" 2009-06-27
As they clamor for "meritocracy" and "performance" to overtake affirmative action programs, it is not uncommon for Iranian business columnists to quote ...
2009-06-27: Headlines
Los Angeles Daily News: Reverse or rehearsed discrimination in college admissions? 2009-06-27
But, are universities really violating anti-affirmative action laws by granting racial preferences to minority applicants? Taking a deeper look at actual ...
ESPN: Opening the mailbag: Position rankings and talking trash 2009-06-26
The only two times I can think of where such a statute was upheld was Michigan Law School's Affirmative Action program (which only used race as one fact ...
Daily Kos: It Is Not Who You Know, It Is Whom You Know 2009-06-26
The second point is one that I made (to impress the girl I was sitting next to who would later become my wife) during a debate on affirmative action.
Village Voice: From the Voice Archives: Greg Tate on Michael Jackson in 1987 2009-06-26
In the history of affirmative action Motown warrants more than a footnote beneath the riot accounts and NAACP legal maneuvers. As a black American succe ...
News-Leader.com: Questions help define closet conservatives 2009-06-26
Affirmative action quotas: Do you believe a person should be admitted to a college, or given a job, based on their race? 4. Do you believe a nine-month ...
Greenwich Citizen: Town government volunteers honored by First Selectmen 2009-06-26
Mario Gonzalez (former executive director of Greenwich Library) served for many years as a member of the First Selectman's Affirmative Action Advisory ...
Politico: Apologizing isn't easy for Congress 2009-06-26
... many caucus members fear it could be used to undermine affirmative action or block efforts to institute programs that address racial health disparities.
KSPR: Missouri Judge Strike Down Affirmative Action 2009-06-26
A state judge has struck down a proposed constitutional amendment seeking to ban many affirmative the proposed initiative because of a technical flaw ...
Malaysia Star: Up close and personal with Dr Aneez Esmail 2009-06-26
Quotas and affirmative action tend to produce better outcomes, he says. “Barack Obama's daughters don't need affirmative action.
2009-06-26: Headlines
News-Leader.com: Questions help define closet conservatives 2009-06-26
Affirmative action quotas: Do you believe a person should be admitted to a college, or given a job, based on their race? 4. Do you believe a nine-month ...
Politico: Apologizing isn't easy for Congress 2009-06-26
... many caucus members fear it could be used to undermine affirmative action or block efforts to institute programs that address racial health disparities.
Greenwich Citizen: Town government volunteers honored by First Selectmen 2009-06-26
Mario Gonzalez (former executive director of Greenwich Library) served for many years as a member of the First Selectman's Affirmative Action Advisory ...
The Colorado Independent: Referendum O set to return in 2010 2009-06-25
The initiatives that generated heat included one on affirmative-action discrimination and one on the rights of the unborn, which were controversial in part ...
EDGE Boston: Cheating Gov. Sanford Has Anti-Gay Record 2009-06-25
The governor is also in favor of some minimal gun control measures, and a supporter of certain affirmative action programs. South Carolina was recently ...