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Angela Johal's case is typical. She says that when her supervisor at the Canteen Corp. in San Jose, California, grabbed her breasts in April 1991, she complained to company officials. Johal was assigned a new supervisor, but her old boss was not reprimanded. The new supervisor accused her of incompetence, a charge that Johal attributes to the friendship between her new and former bosses. Johal became so depressed that she sought therapy and was put on antidepressants. Finally, she went on disability leave and hired a lawyer. Last February the attorney filed a complaint with the EEOC and initiated...
...Gustad Noble, a decent, good-natured Zoroastrian living in Bombay during the early 1970s. At home, he is caught up in the feuds and conspiracies of apartment buildings everywhere. At work, he enjoys the rowdy camaraderie of his Zoroastrian friends, singing Roamin' in the Gloamin' in the bank canteen and entertaining one another with ribald tales...
...coming into the country are monitored to avoid offending the sensibilities of the Saudi hosts. That rules out programs containing make-out scenes, women wearing tight or revealing clothing and displays of religious icons. Some soldiers were concerned that the restrictions might cause the censorship of Cher's Video Canteen, a two-hour special of music videos hosted by the actress, whose scanty costumes are her trademark. Programmers for the VH-1 cable network, which sponsored the show, did exclude some videos from the program, including all by Madonna, but Cher passed muster by wearing jeans and a jacket. When...
Unlike the police, the prisoners abide by their own codes. Virgil teaches Jimmie that unless he "plays by the rules," he will end up the errand boy of a gang. And the gangs show Jimmie how they treat errand boys by stealing his canteen toiletries and beating...
...there was broken. But dinner was an elegant beef bourguignon. Caryl showed the foresight of a veteran trekker, never mind kick turns, by pulling a bottle of Jack Daniel's out of her pack. Simmie Salembier, 42, a caterer from Los Angeles, turned out to have a canteen full of rum. Aching muscles told the day's history, and would retell it more insistently the next morning. Outside, stars snapped in the clear sky, just as they are supposed to do on mountain trips, and inside, feet wiggled in sleeping bags. For the Sawtooth voyagers, this day's chapter ended...