Word: casse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tackled this issue are actually engaged in a practical--rather than an ideological--enterprise: they are trying to prevent lawsuits. In fact, in this era of heightened sensitivity, the legal pressures are coming from all sides. Even as Penn wrestles with the Topol case, another Penn professor, economist David Cass, is charging that the university has sexually harassed him by asking him about his relationship with a former student and then denying him a post to head the department's graduate program. Last week Cass was busy circulating a petition to try to block the new rules. "I resent...
...Both Direct Access Diagnostics and Johnson & Johnson are listed as contributors to the foundation. The amounts or dates of the contributions weren't disclosed by the foundation, but a spokesman said that an average gift in 1993-94 amounted to $17,625. In the other case, Gingrich and Rep. Cass Ballenger (R-N.C.) wrote FDA Commissioner David Kessler on July 22 to question why the agency had not approved a new drug made by Solvay Pharmaceuticals for obsessive compulsive disorder. The company is also one of the foundation's donors...
...today's liberals. They want my precious sense of self-esteem to be respected. They demand that others be sensitive to me--what am I saying?--that I be sensitive to others. They insist that the government be given the task of insuring that this happens. They believe, as Cass Sunstein, an expert witness on the other side of the Colorado case said, that the purpose of the Constitution is to "eliminate prejudice...
MacKinnon and Dworkin believe theirs is an idea whose time has come at last. As evidence, they can cite last month's unanimous ruling by Canada's Supreme Court -- endorsing MacKinnon's argument -- that pornography harmful to women can be outlawed even though freedom of expression is infringed. Cass Sunstein, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago, notes that the courts have carved out numerous exceptions to the First Amendment; for example, it does not protect bribes, fraud, threats or conspiracy...