Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.

Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.