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Like other places with dunes, Monahans Sandhills State Park let me play with natural abstractions. Two days later, on May 15 at Caprock Canyons State Park, I looked up rather than down when photographing some mammatus clouds, which now strike me as looking similar to the undulations in the sand.

 

  

 

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Racial discrimination, though banned by many American laws, is entrenched—actually enshrined—in academia. I call to your attention Aaron Sibarium’s disturbing exposé in the Washington Free Beacon, “‘A Failed Medical School’: How Racial Preferences, Supposedly Outlawed in California, Have Persisted at UCLA,” with subtitle “Up to half of UCLA medical students now fail basic tests of medical competence. Whistleblowers say affirmative action, illegal in California since 1996, is to blame.”

 

 

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Written by Steve Schwartzman

May 27, 2024 at 4:09 AM