Leaders Like Ken Noble Remind Us of the Value of Affirmative Action

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The Root
Raymond T. Diamond
July 24, 2014

If elite colleges are limited to grades and test scores, they'll miss the chance to draw some of the future's most talented leaders

Kenneth B. Noble, a New York Times reporter who covered business and finance in Washington and civil war in Africa, and who headed the newspaper's Los Angeles bureau during the O.J. Simpson trial, died on Thursday in Gainesville, Fla. He was 60. 

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