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Bell Atlantic has moved to dismiss the lawsuit--the court has yet to rule--and says it will vigorously contest the case. Its work force is 23% black, and so are four of its 22 top executives. Group president for consumer and small-business services Bruce Gordon, a black executive who has been with the company for 29 years, denies there is any consciously discriminatory policy. But he said, "Bell Atlantic is a microcosm of society, and I have to assume there are race-based incidents at Bell Atlantic." In fact, most companies of any size now have diversity policies...
Mitchell also said that Kane's mass e-mail was not a good reaction to the decision to dismiss him. Rather, it only strengthened his belief that firing Kane was a good decision...
Burton and his aides dismiss the accusations as a partisan campaign to distract attention from his investigation of the President and the Democrats. But Speaker Newt Gingrich and other Republican leaders are concerned that Burton does not have the probity of a prime-time presidential prosecutor. They fear that the pressure on Burton, who once re-enacted Vince Foster's death by shooting bullets into "a headlike object" in his own backyard, may provoke the chairman into saying or doing something else that could discredit the investigation. Sources close to the Speaker tell TIME that Gingrich is so concerned about...
...fast, someone might say. The human brain is a machine too. How can we dismiss Deep Blue as just a machine when we don't dismiss the human brain as just a machine...
...example, a system of courts (one in an air-conditioning repair shop). When McLaren declared himself at war with the U.S. last week, we naturally turned to Hylton for the inside story. "He's a Pied Piper figure whose rhetoric is so confounding that you're tempted to dismiss him," says Hylton. "But it's evident that McLaren has been able to tap into that nagging insecurity in America that has helped fuel the militia movement...