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...their rights. "Ten years ago, Lisa Olson would have stood alone. Today we are all behind her," says Washington Post reporter Christine Brennan, past president of the Association for Women in Sports Media. For Olson, who was booed by the crowd at a subsequent Patriots game, the locker-room imbroglio has taken an immediate toll. Currently on leave, she will probably not be reassigned to cover the team this season. "She's been brutalized. I'm not sure it would be fair to send her back," says Herald executive sports editor Bob Sales. Furthermore, he says...
...great gain for Quebec," said Bourassa after the negotiations, "and a great gain for Canada." Not to mention a political necessity for Bourassa. The constitutional imbroglio revived the cause of Quebec separatism, which the Meech Lake accord had been intended to defuse. With nationalist sentiment growing, the premier could not show the slightest sign of buckling under pressure from his fellow premiers. Waiting for Bourassa to make a slip was Jacques Parizeau, leader of the opposition Parti Quebecois, the party that endorses the concept of Quebec nationhood. "Faced with what we consider wrong and profoundly humiliating," says Parizeau...
...imbroglio resurrected concerns among Noriega's supporters about his ability to get a fair trial in the U.S. But more important, it renewed some basic questions about the nation's sweeping forfeiture laws. Those statutes provide a mechanism for prosecutors in federal drug and racketeering cases to freeze any of a defendant's assets that they suspect to be fruits of the crime -- even before obtaining a conviction. The targeted assets may include funds that could be used to pay an attorney. As a result, says University of Florida law professor Fletcher Baldwin, "federal prosecutors now have control not only...
...imbroglio came to light last December, when Mary Cartwright, personnel director for the Hoosier Lottery, accused her boss, Jack Crawford, of sexual harassment and he was forced to resign. Out of concern for the couple's privacy, Governor Evan Bayh initially kept a lid on embarrassing documents Cartwright presented: a handwritten contract in which Crawford promised to pay Cartwright $125 a week and a pledge to promote her to lottery director if he ever became Governor. But Bayh made the documents public two weeks ago, after Crawford indicated he might run for prosecutor of Marion County and Cartwright charged that...
Housing discrimination. Stepping into a bitter racial and political imbroglio involving Yonkers, N.Y., the Supreme Court last week slapped federal District Judge Leonard Sand on the wrist for an "abuse" of judicial discretion. Following years of municipal obstructionism and a refusal by the city to carry out a housing-desegregation decree to which it had earlier consented, Sand in 1988 ordered Yonkers council members to vote for the plan. When four legislators disobeyed, the judge imposed potentially crushing contempt fines on them and the city. Last week, in a 5-to-4 vote, the court ruled that Sand should...