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Dr. Leon Eisenberg, at 87; affirmative action advocate

DR. LEON EISENBERG DR. LEON EISENBERG
By Bryan Marquard
Globe Staff / October 11, 2009

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Having tasted discrimination when he tried to get into medical school at a time when there were quotas for Jews, Dr. Leon Eisenberg spent his career devising medical ways to treat one set of outcasts and removing racial barriers that blocked another group of outsiders. (Full article: 1087 words)

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