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According to a complaint filed in Middlesex Superior Court, Bruce Kupelnick worked in the Law School Development Office as a part-time researcher for eight years before he was dismissed in March 1987 by then-Director of Development Research Susan A. Ehrman...
...partnerships.) In addition, the spread of AIDS has raised the importance for gays of medical coverage, bereavement-leave policies, pension rules, hospital visitation rights and laws giving family members the authority to make medical decisions and funeral arrangements. "We are not talking about symbols here," says Thomas Stoddard, executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a well-organized gay-rights group. "These are bread-and-butter issues of basic importance to individuals...
Thomas Stoddard of Lambda counters that "history by itself cannot justify % an unduly limited definition of family, particularly when people suffer as a result." Yet even within the gay-rights movement, there is some disagreement about the goal. Paula Ettelbrick, the legal director of Lambda, argues that the campaign for domestic partnership or gay marriage is misdirected because it tries to adopt traditional heterosexual institutions for gays rather than encouraging tolerance for divergent life-styles. "Marriage, as it exists today, is antithetical to my liberation as a lesbian and as a woman, because it mainstreams my life and voice...
...invested $20 million in a new fabrication facility for micromachining and microelectronics. Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry is considering allocating nearly $70 million for the development of medical microrobots. "I'm absolutely amazed at how fast this field has progressed," says George Hazelrigg, a program director at the NSF, the Government agency spearheading the U.S.'s micromechanics effort...
...writer-director Amy Heckerling, 35, had an adult agenda in mind. "It's not who do you want to sleep with; it's who can you depend on," she says. "Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of. I was trying to deal with those issues. The talking baby was comic relief...