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Richmond, Va.

JUST recently, pundits were ringing the death knell for affirmative action. With the California Civil Rights Initiative getting under way and a new Republican majority in Congress, it seemed as if the era of quotas and preferences was at an end. But the assault on affirmative action has yet to materialize. In fact, the only blow to the quota regime so far has come not from Congress but from the Supreme Court, in its decision in Adarand Constructors v. Peńa last June.

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Richmond, Va.

JUST recently, pundits were ringing the death knell for affirmative action. With the California Civil Rights Initiative getting under way and a new Republican majority in Congress, it seemed as if the era of quotas and preferences was at an end. But the assault on affirmative action has yet to materialize. In fact, the only blow to the quota regime so far has come not from Congress but from the Supreme Court, in its decision in Adarand Constructors v. Peńa last June.