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Roberts v. Texaco by Bari-Ellen Roberts and Jack E. White and your excerpt of it [BUSINESS, March 16] contain numerous factual inaccuracies that present a distorted picture of the events surrounding the racial-discrimination class action of former Texaco senior financial analyst Roberts and other black employees. We feel it is not productive to launch a debate over the facts surrounding these incidents from the past. However, there ought to be a discussion of the questionable conduct of the plaintiffs' attorneys, who knew there was significant doubt as to whether there were racial epithets on the tapes...
What you have just read is an excerpt from my RSI journal, and my last sentence could not have been more off base. I won't be jumping on any keyboards for a while--at least not at the maddening rate I'm used...
...book about the death of Princess Diana is an insult to the French medical team that fought in vain to save her life last August [BOOK EXCERPT, Feb. 16]. Everyone knows the situation was hopeless. It is tasteless for a couple of American journalists to criticize the heroic efforts of the French doctors and the British intelligence team that have had to pick up the pieces and deal with the aftermath of the accident. The authors can wheel out as many American experts as they like, expound on as many theories as they like of how American procedures could have...
...group also addressed sexual harassment of men by women through an excerpt from "A...My Name is Alice"--a lighter scene about a woman who responds to a man's flirtatious calls on the street...
Heller read an excerpt describing a mission he flew to Avignon, France, during which his plane came under heavy fire and a crew member was wounded badly...