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Wed 04 Apr 2003Race case puts spotlight on top court
US: The US Supreme Court questioned yesterday whether race can be used in university admissions in the most significant test of racial preferences in 25 years.
With hundreds of demonstrators carrying placards in a protest outside the court building reminiscent of those during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor questioned a lawyer who argued that race cannot be considered at all.
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