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The United States is not the only country struggling with affirmative action in university admissions

By BETH McMURTRIE

The use of affirmative action in college admissions is often perceived, within the United States, as a uniquely American phenomenon, born from the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws. Such efforts to right historic wrongs have embroiled federal judges and litigants in...

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