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Supreme court closes door on affirmative action in university admissions

Race-based admissions were an unpopular measure for tackling inequality in America

For decades, the admissions policies of many prestigious US universities have been deliberately skewed to increase the number of black students. And with very good reason, said Jerome Karabel in The New York Times.

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