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New York Times: President Faults Race Preferences as Admission Tool

Bush will die Affirmitive-Action Programme abschaffen.

President Bush offered a sweeping denunciation of direct preferences for racial minorities in university admissions today and said his administration would file a brief with the Supreme Court urging that the affirmative action admissions policies at the University of Michigan be declared unconstitutional.

Ouote of the Day: "I strongly support diversity of all kinds, including racial diversity in higher education. But the method used by the University of Michigan to achieve this important goal is fundamentally flawed." George Bush Jr.