2014-04-28, 08:33 | Link #33561 | |
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To add on with that, (while wikipedia is not the best source, it's pretty accurate here) I'll quote wikipedia.
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Look at who has the worst chance of being accepted and who has the best chances. As an Asian-American, myself, this is pretty much me going in with the chips stacked against me from the very beginning. Even further, (according to the AAMC website), Asians with GPAs of 3.8-4.0 and MCATs of 42-45 are the only group that where less than 100 % of students with that GPA range get acceptances.
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2014-04-28, 09:35 | Link #33562 | |
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2014-04-28, 12:50 | Link #33563 | |
No time to sleep, 不幸だ
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For example, take Bronx Science and Stuyvesant High School in NYC. Those two schools pick the people who enter purely based off of a single test. End result? 60+% are Asians. However, that's not the point. A black with the same score as an Asian or a White has the same exact chances of getting into those schools. Now, obviously this is somewhat flawed as well. However, this points the issue that this kind of thing is what make the numbers so skewed. Otherwise, the numbers would be more even within maybe 2-3% differences to count those cases you are pointing out. It wouldn't be those huge-ass gaps that you see above. If anything Affirmative Action should be aimed more at SES as opposed to race but even that still opens up a can of worms. However, it would still be better.
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2014-04-28, 18:44 | Link #33564 |
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Sen. Ted Cruz calls on Secretary Kerry to resign over apartheid comments
http://therightscoop.com/breaking-se...heid-comments/ The thing is than Kerry is right on that one, even Israeli ex prime minister Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak have said the same in the past.
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2014-04-28, 19:02 | Link #33565 | |
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I also see these comments as strategic. Tea Party fanatics like Cruz are not especially favored by the financial types that make up mainstream Republican politics. A lot of those people are tied to the Republicans' neo-con wing that so dominated the Bush cabinet. So maybe Cruz is trying to curry favor with those people as well. I doubt Cruz has strong feelings one way or the other about Israel. It's all politics. It's also an indirect jab at Hillary Clinton, and part of the continuing Republican efforts to portray Democrats as weak on national security, something they have done all my life. It's more of the "Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi" rhetoric. One of the persistent themes of the Obama Adminstration has been trying to shed that reputation by "tough" actions like drone strikes and the assassination of Osama bin Laden.
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2014-04-29, 13:17 | Link #33572 | |
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Nevertheless, Roy Brown would describe Ted Cruz (or any other mad politician) ever so well with his song. Bless Roy. |
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2014-04-30, 06:38 | Link #33573 |
books-eater youkai
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Oklahoma Inmate Dies After Execution Is Botched
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/o...mates-23510375
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2014-04-30, 07:34 | Link #33574 | |
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Personally he should've been executed the same way he killed his victim - shot with a shotgun, and then buried alive. |
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2014-04-30, 09:49 | Link #33579 |
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So anyone going to deathrow deserves to suffer in their last moments?
What happens if that person was an innocent who was wrongly convicted? Does that person deserves to die a horrible death even though he didn't do it? The problem with the justice system is it's suppose to protect the innocent and punish the guilty but instead the innocent sometime gets punished for being in the wrong place at the wrong time or corruption while the guilty gets away scott free using connections or loop holes in the law. Even if we uses harsh punishments for terrible criminals, are those actions justified or we not so different with the criminals?
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2014-04-30, 09:59 | Link #33580 |
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Can we just use a rifle and one bullet?
You know, kyp275, what you think about is just the same with feudal system: They always drag the criminal through the street, then kill. It's a two edge blade: supresses the people, but also advocate people about violence. Not like I have sympathy to these people, but you should care about how to execute without letting back bad influence. |
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