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On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in what could be a landmark case on affirmative action:  whether the University of Michigan's undergraduate college and law schools should be allowed to continue to use race as a factor in admissions.  The case is considered to be the most important affirmative action case since the 1978 Bakke decision.  A special program from National Public Radio's 

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in what could be a landmark case on affirmative action:  whether the University of Michigan's undergraduate college and law schools should be allowed to continue to use race as a factor in admissions.  The case is considered to be the most important affirmative action case since the 1978 Bakke decision.  A special program from National Public Radio's Justice Talking series.


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