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...coveted time slot last season behind TV's No. 1 show American Idol, a luxury the House cast and crew won't enjoy this year. If they wanted to overlook that fact, their lead actor reminds them of it constantly. "Hugh is uncomfortable with everything," says Leonard. "He'll dismiss the Emmys, the ratings...
Hammonds will also try to improve the University’s “climate” for women and minorities. She will offer implementation support for the Task Forces on Women, which were created this February in response to uproar when Summers appeared to dismiss a link between discrimination and scarcity of women in the University’s upper echelons...
Hammonds will also try to improve the University’s “climate” for women and minorities. She will offer implementation support for the Task Forces on Women, which were created this February in response to uproar when Summers appeared to dismiss a link between discrimination and scarcity of women in the University’s upper echelons...
...significance of the opinion may be far reaching, according to some First Amendment experts, if it encourages judges to dismiss more libel cases before they turn into long and expensive trials. Since few libel cases ultimately result in large damage awards, it is the cost of trying them, not paying damages, that the press fears and regards as a threat to its free dom. Judge Kaufman's ruling, says Floyd Abrams, a leading First Amendment expert, could "go a long way toward relieving the burden that the recent explosion of libel litigation has brought about...
...fled Manila, the National Assembly never formally recognized her as the winner of the Feb. 7 presidential election. As a result, Aquino technically presides over an illegal regime. By declaring her government revolutionary, she would free herself from Marcos' 1973 constitution. She could then dissolve the National Assembly and dismiss local officials loyal to the former President. The downside of the action is that it would leave Aquino open to charges that her government was nearly as authoritarian as the regime it replaced. Justice Minister Neptali Gonzales, who heads the committee studying the matter, is expected to recommend a course...