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To: unclewest who wrote (6652)	9/3/2003 6:08:22 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793622

From a blog on college admissions At a news conference held soon after Michigan's announcement, several leaders of student groups on the campus said they feared that young applicants might have difficulty writing essays that adequately reflected the impact of their race or ethnicity on their lives, and that minority enrollments would decline as a result. Ricardo Valle, a senior who is a spokesman for a student group called La Voz Latina, said that, before college, "I did not know what diversity was or how to interpret my experiences as a Latino youth." Mr. Valle thus provided no "diversity" to anyone when he was admitted and during at least some of his undergraduate career. By the time he was a senior, however, he had become a full-fledged self-conscious Hispanic. Or Latino. Michigan, it seems, creates its minorities rather than admits them. discriminations.us

To: unclewest who wrote (6652)	9/3/2003 6:36:30 AM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793622

from a high of over 5,000 to under 2,500 You certainly are selective in quoting statistics, taking a small slice of time and ignoring the record over all the Clinton years -- I guess that's what Twain meant when he railed against "lies and damned statistics." In fact, the NASDAQ more than quintupled during the eight years of the Clinton presidency, even with that fall in his last year. Can you name another presidency where a broad stock market index rose by five times? In fact, almost any economic numbers you can site during the Clinton years show dramatic improvement. If you look at the Clinton economy by the numbers, the only objective way to judge the economy, it seems to me that it has been the best in a generation, if not the best ever.