1.   Critics of affirmative action have cited Piscataway as an example of how programs that favor minorities are unfair to whites.

2.   Jennifer Johnson, Aimee Bogrow and Molly Ann Beckenhauer said the school unfairly rejected them because its affirmative action policy favored minorities.

3.   Republicans have sought to portray Lee as an extremist who champions racial preferences that favor minorities.

4.   Tuesday presidential candidates Lamar Alexander and Patrick Buchanan issued statements calling for an end to all federal programs that favor minorities.

5.   Affirmative action opponents said favoring minorities is using one injustice to try to rectify another.

6.   He backs abortion rights, supports some gun control and sees the benefit of programs that favor racial minorities.

7.   It also found no evidence of rampant racism within the Riverside Police Department and said that if anything, the department suffers from unfair discipline practices that favor minorities.

8.   The draft of the disputed amendment was changed last month after protests by hard-line Macedonians, who said it unfairly favored minorities.