21.   Bush said Texas was moving toward a system based more on economic need than racial preferences.

22.   Bush says he opposes racial quotas and racial preferences.

23.   Bush proposed that a year ago to end racial preferences in university admissions and some public contracts.

24.   Bush, on the other hand, has rhetorically sided with those who oppose racial preferences, and would probably appoint justices who share that view.

25.   But a decade later, as head of the Civil Rights Commission in the Reagan administration, she opposed racial preferences.

26.   But even assuming that diversity is a compelling goal, the court wrote, it still does not necessarily justify a rigid racial preference policy.

27.   But Kane throws cold water on the idea that it would serve as a rough-and-ready substitute for racial preference.

28.   But lawyers challenging racial preferences say that is a separate issue.

29.   But students like Seth Avakian at UMass-Amherst say that racial preferences ensure that colleges can create the learning environment they think is essential.

30.   But, she added, the litigation has heightened student awareness of racial preferences, in a negative way.