Word: brief
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...this time Harris, 41, didn't have to wait. To the amazement of seasoned court watchers, the Supreme Court last week issued the equivalent of a judicial telegram, a terse, 9-to-0 decision in Harris' favor. It came only 27 days after oral arguments, a period so brief as to be virtually unprecedented. In a court renowned for innumerable footnotes and ponderous opinions, the Justices took a concise eight pages to clarify the standards for sexual harassment under Title VII, the federal discrimination law. The court's dramatic decision was no accident. "By acting quickly and unanimously, the court...
...decision marks a triumphant fulfillment of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's promise in August that she and O'Connor would help their male colleagues "look at life a bit differently." (Ginsburg wrote a brief concurrence, her first writing on the high bench.) Says law professor Susan Deller Ross, head of Georgetown University's Sex Discrimination Clinic: "This illustrates the merits of diversity. Men have not typically undergone a barrage of verbal abuse about their sexuality as a condition of having a job. I think they have a very difficult time understanding the impact of that." The seven...
After listening to Restic enthusiasticallydiscuss in brief his love of the game, theimportance of people in making coachingworthwhile, and the number of ways that moderncollege sports--in their desperate pursuit of winsand money--have reneged on their obligations todevelop young athletes as human beings, I'vefinally managed to drive him into talking abouthis war years...
...added incentive for Harvard will be a desire to make Coach Joe Restic's last game a happy one. Restic, the winningest coach in Harvard football history, will be retiring after his 23rd season. A brief ceremony in Restic's honor will be held prior to The Game...
...sure countless parents will argue -- is different. It sounds so mellifluous, so venerable, so upper-crust American. In the early 1960s, a pretty junior high classmate of mine served as a harbinger of the future by answering to Tiffany. Her we-should-have-seen-i t-coming destiny: a brief career as a braless starlet on a now forgotten TV sitcom...