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Spurred by that decision, Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) – a Boston-based non-profit – filed a federal civil rights complaint on Monday against Harvard for granting “special preference in its admissions process to hundreds of mostly white students – not because of anything they have accomplished, but rather solely because of who their relatives are”.