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Original Articles

The aesthetics of legal rhetoric: The ambiguities of race in Adarand v. Pena and the beginning of the end of affirmative action

Pages 113-127 | Received 28 Jan 1996, Accepted 08 Jul 1996, Published online: 27 Feb 2009

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