![]() The first affirmative-action measure in America was an executive order signed by President Kennedy in 1961 requiring that federal contractors “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.” In 1967, President Johnson amended this, and a subsequent measure included sex, recognizing that women also faced many discriminatory barriers and hurdles to equal opportunity. ![]() Originally, women weren’t even included in legislation attempting to level the playing field in education and employment. Ironically, Fisher is exactly the kind of person affirmative action helps the most in America today. But study after study shows that affirmative action helps white women as much or even more than it helps men and women of color. The original lawsuit was filed on behalf of Abigail Fisher, a woman who claims that she was denied admission to the University of Texas because she is white. Supreme Court is expected to rule in a potentially landmark case on the constitutionality of affirmative action. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “This is a guy who made up a lot of stories to try to sell books,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told Fox News on Friday. The White House has heavily criticized the content of the book and downplayed Wolff’s access to the White House. It became the top-selling book on Amazon on Thursday after published excerpts alleged shocking details and quotes from White House aides. Wolff’s latest book, released ahead of schedule on Friday, is titled Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. ![]() In 2007, he founded, an aggregation site. Wolff, the former editorial director of AdWeek, began his career in journalism as a copy boy for the New York Times. Murdoch raised objections about the biography before it was published. Perhaps most famously, Wolff profiled media mogul Rupert Murdoch in his 2010 book The Man Who Owns the News. He has also written several books, including Autumn of the Moguls, Burn Rate and Television is the New Television. Wolff, 64, has been a columnist for Vanity Fair and a contributor to the Hollywood Reporter and other news outlets, including Newsweek and USA Today, covering the media industry. Here’s what to know about the author of the news-making exposé. Michael Wolff’s new book chronicling dysfunction within the Trump Administration was released Friday morning, drawing Harry Potter-style crowds at Washington, D.C. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Poison is an entertaining book that is hard to put down. She is surrounded by danger and people with uncertain motives but manages to find her way through and even save some lives in the process. Despite her own misdeeds, Francesca is a heroine it is difficult not to root for. In Poison, Sara Poole delves into the dangerous and corrupt world of the Renaissance in Rome and brings it to life. She also must consider that there are many dangerous men who would not only like to see Borgia and Francesca dead, but all the Jews of Rome, even all throughout Christendom. But first there is the matter of the current pope to deal with, and Francesca becomes more involved than she would like, fearing she is endangering her very soul. Borgia himself is determined to ascend in rank, planning to become the next pope. When he is brutally murdered, she does some killing of her own to become the cardinal’s new poisoner, a highly unusual position for a woman of the time.įrancesca must protect the cardinal, Rodrigo Borgia, from others bent on coming to power in the Church. Francesca Giordano has been raised by her father, the poisoner for a powerful cardinal of the Catholic Church in 1492 Rome. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kazu is married to author Amy Kim Kibuishi. Kazu began drawing comics at the age of 5.ĭespite spending much of his time drawing comics, Kazu decided not to attend art school and enrolled at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he graduated with a degree in Film and Media Studies in 2000. After graduating, he took jobs in graphic design, architecture, and the animation industry, but found his way back to making comics. He currently works as a full-time graphic novelist. The family moved back to the United States in 1981, and the boys grew up near Los Angeles, California. His great grandfather opened the oldest Japanese grocery store in the US, called The Katagiri Store (open since 1907), and it is located in New York City. His mother grew up in Brooklyn, but moved to Tokyo to attend Keio University. Kazu was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1978, and his brother was born in 1979. Kazu is 4th-generation Japanese-American. In 2012, he illustrated the covers for the Harry Potter 15th Anniversary Edition paperbacks. His debut graphic novel, Daisy Kutter: The Last Train, won a YALSA Best Books for Young Adults Award in 2005. He is also the editor/art director/cover artist of the EXPLORER and FLIGHT Comic Anthologies, and the creator of the webcomic Copper. Kazu Kibuishi is the writer and artist of the New York Times Bestselling AMULET graphic novel series, published by Scholastic Graphix. ![]() ![]() Since 2013, 7.3 million Americans have gained private insurance through ACA marketplaces, while an additional 8.7 million have received coverage through Medicaid. In addition, to get even more people covered, the ACA expanded Medicaid, government-driven health insurance for the poor. Gruber, whose has been mostly silent since controversial comments of his resurfaced a few months ago, spoke candidly about the law’s outcomes to date.Ī key part of the ACA was forming online ‘marketplaces,’ easy-to-use websites where consumers can shop for health insurance plans For those unable to afford health insurance, the ACA provides subsidies. ![]() Recently, many members of Congress, especially on the political right, have blasted the law for raising costs and restricting choice. Since its implementation, the ACA has been under intense political controversy. The law took effect in 2013 with several goals-to expand health insurance coverage, to improve the quality of care and to lower costs. ![]() Gruber was hired to conduct economic modeling for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the biggest reform of the health care system since the 1960s, and one of the President’s signature actions. Gator News Editor Samuel Ravina ’17 sat down recently with Jonathan Gruber, an MIT health economist, and key consultant for the Obama administration. To that end, The Gator has started a series of interviews with prominent leaders in public policy, academics, and the business community. The Brimmer and May School emphasizes the values of good citizenship. ![]() ![]() ![]() The plan fails, however, when the warden gives orders to keep the ferry from leaving. The car explodes, attracting the attention of men, and Teddy makes use of the diversion to leap into the water and hold on to the side of the boat in the freezing water. In order to distract the men, Teddy doubles back to Cawley’s house, removes the tie Dolores gave him, stuffs it into Cawley’s gas tank, and lights it. The ferry arrives, and it is placed under guard. He begins to theorize about what might have happened to Chuck-that he has perhaps been killed, and that, when he is inevitably lobotomized to prevent him from talking about Ashecliffe, Chuck’s death will be given out as the event that tipped him over the edge. Teddy lays low while the warden’s men fan out over the island. ![]() He overhears the warden giving instructions to keep him off the ferry at all costs. ![]() Having fallen asleep out of doors, Teddy has another nightmare about Andrew Laeddis, Rachel Solando, a young man he saw killed in the war, and his father. ![]() ![]() witches, faeries, and shapeshifters.īy the end of her first day among fellow freak-teens, Sophie has quite a scorecard: three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, a futile crush on a gorgeous warlock, a creepy tag-along ghost, and a new roommate who happens to be the most hated person and only vampire student on campus. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it’s her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie’s estranged father-an elusive European warlock-only when necessary. Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. ![]() ![]() Source: Hardcover, Published Maby Hyperion Books ![]() Review: Hex Hall (Hex Hall #1) by Rachel Hawkins ![]() ![]() She discovers that there’s a lot more to her-and to everyone-than a label, and that great minds don’t always think alike. As her confidence grows, Ally feels free to be herself and the world starts opening up with possibilities. With his help, Ally learns not to be so hard on herself and that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed of. Daniels sees the bright, creative kid underneath the trouble maker. She is afraid to ask for help after all, how can you cure dumb? However, her newest teacher Mr. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions. ![]() But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is stupid.”Īlly has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. ![]() ![]() The author of the beloved One for the Murphys gives readers an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel that will speak to anyone who’s ever thought there was something wrong with them because they didn’t fit in. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story here has it that all the males in the world (defined as bearers of a Y chromosome) instantly disappear one day. The list could have been extended quite a bit, though, to the “Herland” of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Begum Rokeya’s “Ladyland,” or even to medieval or classical models. In her acknowledgments at the end of “The Men,” Sandra Newman gives thanks to feminist SF writers who had previously imagined all-female societies, mentioning Joanna Russ, Alice Sheldon and Sherri Tepper. The result offers something fresh and engaging for fans of many genres. The locked-room mystery is well handled while social media in the form of up-to-the-minute tweets and news feeds (ranked for their “truthiness”) are deftly interwoven with a classic conspiracy-thriller plot. ![]() There’s a lot going on in “Drunk on All Your Strange New Words” and most of it is really good. But when Fitz ends up murdered Lydia finds herself in the middle of an intergalactic murder mystery in which she’ll need some assistance from the dead ambassador, whose voice is still kicking around in her head. Lydia Southwell is one such specially trained translator, assigned to the Logi ambassador Fitz. When the alien Logi arrive on Earth they require human translators to express their thought-language into words, a process that makes translators feel and act drunk. ![]() ![]() ![]() The interlude with Pie occurs during a two-year period where Brown disappears from Onion’s life, but they’re reunited a few months before the debacle at Harpers Ferry. This fluidity of gender identity allows Onion a certain leeway in his life, for example, he gets taken in by Pie, a beautiful prostitute, where he witnesses some activity almost more unseemly than a 12-year-old can stand. ![]() Brown whisks the 12-year-old away thinking he’s a girl, and Onion keeps up the disguise for the next few years. The unlikely narrator of the events leading up to Brown’s quixotic raid at Harpers Ferry is Henry Shackleford, aka Little Onion, whose father is killed when Brown comes in to liberate some slaves. In McBride’s version of events, John Brown’s body doesn’t lie a-mouldering in the grave-he’s alive and vigorous and fanatical and doomed, so one could say his soul does indeed go marching on. ![]() |