— April , 1995 after being asked if Republican attacks on "bureaucrats" contributed to an atmosphere that helped lead to the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City "If they truly believe in affirmative action, every news organization should do nothing but hire conservative Republicans".
POLITICIANS battle over America's debt ceiling, the country's Supreme Court considers affirmative action, Argentina awaits news of its president and Alexei Navalny's appeal is heard in Moscow.
This isn't the first time affirmative consent appeared in the news; Antioch College made morning headlines and night-time fodder when they introduced it into their Student Code of Conduct in the early 1990's.
Proposition 209, California's new anti-affirmative action law, appears to mean bad news for efforts to recruit minority students into science.
Re "Study Strongly Supports Affirmative Action in Admissions to Elite Colleges" (news article, Sept. 9): The fact that high percentages of black college graduates succeed professionally and in the community has little to do with affirmative action.
The Times reluctantly settled the suit in 1978 by agreeing to pay $350,000 in back wages and lawyers' fees and committing itself to an affirmative-action program for women in both the news and business departments.
The good news for Clinton is that this measure of affirmative support has risen nine points since July.
On Jan . 1 the Rev. Jesse Jackson held a news conference here to accuse the university of equivocating on affirmative action.
The good news is that in general, the court upheld the principal of affirmative action.
Given the avalanche of world-shaking news since last week, the shrug greeting the latest chapter in the long-running affirmative action saga at the University of Texas is understandable.
Abigail Fisher, who sued the University of Texas over it's affirmative action policy, appeared with Edward Blum of the Project on Fair Representation, at a news conference on Monday after the Supreme Court handed down its decision in her case.
