Word: au
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...failed. Rather plain-featured, simply but expensively dressed, she looked only twice at the man she says raped her. Asked to identify him, she exhaled and paused before nodding briefly at William Kennedy Smith. In an almost matter-of-fact tone, she described meeting him at the trendy Au Bar disco last Easter weekend. Smith, she said, seemed such "a very nice man," whom she trusted because as a medical-school student, he could talk about the problems ^ she had experienced with her prematurely born daughter...
...Viewers also learn to appreciate that in courtroom testimony, demeanor and delivery are crucial. Prosecutor Moira Lasch must still be regretting that she called Anne Mercer to the stand. On the night of the alleged incident, Mercer went with Smith's accuser to Au Bar, the tony Palm Beach hangout where they met Smith in the company of his uncle, Senator Edward Kennedy, and Kennedy's son Patrick. Lasch got what she wanted from Mercer: testimony that the alleged victim yelled "rape" early on. The jury may remember her fashion-mag appearance and soulless manner...
Harvard, which owns the Au Bon Pain Harvard Square property, was not directly involved in the negotiations, but was very interested in the agreement, said Happy Green, Harvard's director of community relations...
...think that it is an issue and a problem. Au Bon Pain is taking initiative and doing it in a very positive way with the people who know best about it," she said...
...Au Bon Pain suggested that other businesses might use the recent set of guidelines as a model for their own business practices. "Au Bon Pain urges other commercial establishments to adopt these same non-discriminatory policies," the press release said