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...ideas for the night of music began when Bullet LaVolta band member T. Corey Brennan, an Adams House resident Classics tutor, heard a tape of the Blake Babies at WHRB, where he is a disc jockey...
...first time the Supreme Court explicitly ruled that women as well as blacks and other minorities can receive preferential treatment. Even more significantly, the decision endorsed a voluntary affirmative-action plan in a situation where there was no proven history of discrimination; all that was necessary, wrote Justice William Brennan for the majority, was evidence of a "manifest imbalance" in the number of women or minorities holding the positions in question...
Since he only has a "reading knowledge" of Italian, Brennan said that his other goals for his year in Rome would be to "improve Italian and meet Italians...
...last week the high court used sweeping language to rule that Arline's rights had been violated. Writing for the majority, Justice William Brennan held that Congress had passed the law "to ensure that handicapped individuals are not denied jobs or other benefits because of the prejudiced attitudes or the ignorance of others." In a dissent that was joined by Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice William Rehnquist said neither the language of the law nor the record of congressional discussion preceding its passage provided evidence that contagiousness was intended to fall within its definition of handicap. The majority of the Justices...
Employers may still dismiss someone who is incapable of doing work or who poses a significant risk of spreading disease. But, Brennan stressed, each individual case must be judged in the light of medical evidence that such a risk exists and a showing that safe alternative work cannot reasonably be found for the employee...