Word: civil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...introduction, Counter reminded his audience that Harvard hosts speakers of many viewpoints, and that the evening's discussion should remain civil...
...heart the boxing motto that you should lead with your strongest punch, a group of federal prosecutors is trying to use the RICO anti-racketeering statute to shake up the International Boxing Federation as if it were the Gambino crime family. Monday, several New Jersey U.S. attorneys filed a civil suit against the IBF - the only major sanctioning body based in the U.S. - seeking the appointment of a monitor to oversee the restructuring of the organization. The impetus: Earlier this month, four top officials from the IBF were indicted on racketeering charges, including taking payoffs to rank lower-tier boxers...
...tailing someone through cyberspace may be far more revealing of personal details. "If you go to sites about mental health or pornography, that information could be subpoenaed in a civil suit or custody battle and used against you," warns Jason Catlett, president of Junkbusters, a privacy advocacy group. That's why the Federal Trade Commission convened a workshop last week to explore the privacy implications of Web profiling. "Not only are privacy policies difficult to locate online," says ftc chairman Robert Pitofsky, "in almost all cases users don't even know this is happening...
...THERE BE LIGHT There is good news for families on both sides of the church-state divide. A broad coalition of religious, educational and civil-liberties groups agreed last week to encourage schools to make study about the Bible "an important part of a complete education." Log in at http://209.130.44.53/bps/bpsfaguide01.htm for the guidelines they developed to help teachers include academic instruction about the Bible in literature and history courses, without proselytizing. Developing better teacher training is the next step, says the National Bible Association...
...that although the officials who kicked those black kids out of school are overwhelmingly white, the issue is "not race but fairness." In almost the very next breath, he likens Decatur to Selma, Ala. If race is not the issue in Decatur, why dredge up memories of a historic civil rights struggle where the only issue was race...