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...membership of such committees is ordinarily kept secret by the University as a matter of policy...
WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court kept it simple Wednesday: Harassment, plus an element of sex, equals sexual harassment -- no matter what your gender. In a decision hailed by gay-rights groups, the court defended the right of a Louisiana oil-rig worker to sue three coworkers for sexual harassment, even though all involved are men. "We see no justification... for a categorical rule excluding same-sex harassment claims from the coverage of Title VII," Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the court...
Suddenly, just past 10 p.m., a roar erupted from a mass of students who had gathered outside Wayne Manor, where they were trying to burn the first bench of the evening--the first in a series of incidents that kept the police and the students in a constant state of confrontation until the early morning hours...
...fast. While Reader's Digest still boasts the world's largest magazine circulation--more than 27.8 million monthly copies sold in 19 languages--its feel-good stories and aging readership (average age: 47 and rising) have kept it out of step with the competition. Even before oral sex became a dinner-table topic, the Digest had lost resonance with generations of today's readers. The U.S. subscription base has decreased by a million since 1993. That's not terrible, but to maintain circulation levels, the magazine must add 5 million new subscribers a year. Not an easy task...
...watched the opening ceremonies the same way 56 million other Americans did, on the tube at home. Instead of sharing cramped quarters with Lipinski and the flu that took Germany's Tanja Szewczenko out of the running, she bunked with Mom and Dad at a hotel. (Its location was kept secret.) "I'm going to spend as much time as I can in the Olympic village," she declared firmly. "But I've got to focus on my own thing right now and do what's good for me." Conventional wisdom says that Kwan should have played it differently, a little...