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...Amnesty International report showed that many of the victims of police brutality in the United States are unarmed, lack a criminal record and belong to an ethnic minority. The fact that Giuliani turns a blind eye to these sorts of statistics and deaf ear to the pleadings of minorities to watch dog is disturbing, to say the least...
...tech firms and computer companies, with their easier access to and knowledge of new technology, are often in the vanguard of efforts to work with the disabled. Hewlett-Packard Co., for one, has educated its managers about devices that can be used to assist employees who are blind or deaf, says Maricella Gallegos, who manages the Palo Alto, Calif., firm's disabilities employment program. Workers with emotional problems who have trouble dealing with the workplace are offered the option of telecommuting...
Hewlett-Packard provides, among other things, Braille books, interpreters and text telephone (TTY) service--phone conversations in which an operator transcribes a hearing person's response that is transmitted and read by a deaf person on a text telephone screen. Patty O'Sullivan, 39, H-P's diversity project administrator, who has been with the company for 13 years, is an avid user of the technology. O'Sullivan, who is deaf, conducted her interview with TIME via TTY. Her employer also has an interpreter available if she is meeting with people in a large group and would have a hard...
Democratic protests notwithstanding, House Republicans are set to begin debating the impeachment of President Clinton on Friday morning. Republicans turned a deaf ear to Democratic entreaties that it would be inappropriate -- and possibly harmful to U.S. interests and personnel -- to debate the removal of the President in the midst of a military conflict. And that, surprisingly, may have given Democrats an opening to score valuable political points...
...have lost his job while Clinton stays as President. The loss of face by the Republicans in the elections was because they saw and heard only what they wanted to. The electorate had been giving a warning ever since the House got preoccupied with Monica. But it fell on deaf ears. RAJA RAMAN Chennai, India