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...suit $115 million in cash, will provide $26.1 million in pay raises over five years for black employees and will pay $35 million for sensitivity and diversity training programs. The oil giant also agreed to subject itself to a review by an "Equity and Tolerance Task Force" that will attempt to identify and eliminate racial bias among Texaco workers. "With this litigation behind us, we can now move forward on our broader, urgent mission to make Texaco a model of workplace opportunity for all men and women," Peter I. Bijur, Texaco's chairman and chief executive, said in a statement...
Proposition 209 began as the brainchild of two university professors, and in an Orwellian twist it became known as the California Civil Rights Initiative. A few weeks before Election Day, its supporters even considered running television advertisements featuring Martin Luther King Jr. in a perverse attempt to bolster public opinion in favor of it. The TV ads were scuttled when the King estate threatened legal action and the Rev. Jesse Jackson began to effectively demonstrate that King had been an early proponent of affirmative action, though the particular term was not popularized in his lifetime...
...bill, I thought its passage might hinder the more important goal of gaining student voices on the Ad Board. Although it would be satisfying to see the Ad Board condemned, this punitive measure would in all likelihood be shrugged off by the administration and could even hinder an attempt to achieve true reform of the Ad Board...
Nwankwo Kanu, 20, Nigeria Recent tests have apparently revealed that the soccer star suffers from a weak aortic valve. In an attempt to salvage a promising professional career with one of Italy's top soccer teams, he is consulting with specialists and exploring the possibility of surgery...
Fastidiously faithful to Vonnegut's narrative, the film is less true to the cheeky ironies of his tone. This is a loss, but not a fatal one. Well played and handsomely realized, Mother Night is a true movie rarity--an attempt to grapple seriously yet entertainingly with some of the complexities of modern morality...