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...lawyers who first negotiated the settlement for the women contend that more than 100 female case officers, now overseas and undercover, have telephoned in their support for the agreement. "This agreement is not a panacea," says Joseph M. Sellers of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. "It will not change overnight what has been decades of entrenched nepotism and connections developed through an old-boy network. But I think it is a very good first step, and it holds real promise to bring that insidious process to an end over time." Unconvinced, the plaintiffs have engaged a new lawyer...
Female officers are especially hard hit, they say, because DO managers tend to typecast male case officers as recruiters and relegate women to lower-status "handling" jobs, in which they debrief, nurture and pay previously recruited agents. The women contend that the skill of coaxing sensitive data out of skittish informants ought to be at least as valued as a knack for striking up acquaintances...
Such work stirs mixed emotions in the gay community. To some extent, gays and lesbians welcome the research because it supports what most of them have long felt: that homosexuality is an innate characteristic, like skin color, rather than a perverse life-style choice, as conservative moralists contend. And if that is true, then gays deserve legal protection similar to the laws that prohibit racial discrimination. "On a political level, genetic research does seem to move the debate along a certain path," says Denny Lee of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay advocacy group in New York...
Other residents contend the bill- boards are not only esthetically displeasingbut damaging to the infrastructure of buildings...
...underraters, both in and outside the U.S. government, demur. They argue that America's dealings with Beijing lack strategic vision. They also contend that public hectoring and flip-flops over human rights, nuclear nonproliferation and now Taiwan have created dissonance in China policy: a U.S. trade official talks of "an orchestra in which each player plays his own music, and there is no conductor." Cautions Burton Levin, director of the Asia Society in Hong Kong: "If the U.S. harangues, it strengthens the hands of the xenophobes in China and weakens those forces that want to move toward a less authoritarian...