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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (343343)	1/15/2003 7:35:23 AM
From: Baldur Fjvlnisson	Respond to of 769670

Way better than W's war-crazed smirk. pearly4000.tripod.com

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (343343)	1/15/2003 9:09:46 AM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 769670

The aides said Bush plans to point to an "affirmative access" program he championed as governor of Texas. It guaranteed state-college admission to the top 10 percent of each high school graduating class, regardless of race. Good alternative.... * * *

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (343343)	1/18/2003 12:27:46 AM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

"Rice has had praise for some uses of affirmative action over the years. Stanford released minutes from a 1998 faculty senate meeting in which Rice was quoted as saying that she was "a beneficiary of a Stanford strategy that took affirmative action seriously," pointing to her arrival at Stanford in 1981 as a fellow in the arms control and disarmament program. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said during Bush's campaign that he hoped the University of Michigan would prevail in the case, and copies of his comments are being used by some university officials to build support for their policies. Powell told WJR-AM in Detroit in September 2000 that he thinks affirmative action "is still necessary." "I will continue to speak out for it," he said, according to a transcript from Video Monitoring Services of America. "There is a case now pending, of course, with the University of Michigan that I hope the university wins." washingtonpost.com