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Shifting gears on affirmative action

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By Ben Hayes
| Cherwell Verified
Affirmative action in America is gone, but the change in data so far doesn’t show clear racial balancing. Unlike Oxford, the American admissions system requires personal essays, extracurricular activities, and a range of demographic qualifiers. College progressives may be offsetting explicit racial quotas with a new emphasis on these categories.
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The Former Ambassador

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By Ben Hayes
| Cherwell Verified
Steven Pifer greets me at the door with a limp. He’d broken his kneecap en route to Kyiv three weeks ago, and scrambling for hotel bomb shelters in the wee hours of the morning hadn’t done his injury any favours. “The nice thing about this,” he jokes about his injury, “is I got dispensation to use the elevator.” Pifer was the American ambassador to Ukraine from 1998 to 2000. His house reflects it.
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Delving into the Appeal of Historical Fiction

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By Ben Hayes
| Bookstr
Historical fiction can often give a human, empathetic side to events and wars that occurred long ago. Readers have the chance to explore the motives people might have had and explore an author’s interpretation or retelling of familiar events. Once forgotten or overlooked historical events can be retold, subverted, or put into a different form. Notable books include Roman Blood by Steven Saylor.
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