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When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last June to uphold the affirmative-action policy of the University of Michigan Law School, college officials breathed a collective sigh of

relief. For the court not only reaffirmed the legality of racial preferences in admissions, but it did so by stressing a deference to

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