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Notes & comments: February 2003.
The diversity con game
... the false theory of progress, which maintains that we alter the test instead of trying to pass the test.
--G. K. Chesterton
Last month, the Bush administration announced that it was filing legal briefs to challenge the University of Michigan's policy of using race as a factor in deciding who gets admitted to its undergraduate program and its law school. President Bush described Michigan's policy as a disguised quota system which violated the Constitutional right to equal protection.
Predictably, the administration's initiative sparked an orgy of hand-wringing in the liberal establishment. "The Bush ...
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