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...team had won the Ivys the year before. I had already turned down full rides at Berkeley [California] and Illinois." Stern and other female athletes eventually filed a class action against the university to restore gymnastics and volleyball, citing Brown's failure to comply with Title IX, the landmark civil rights statute barring gender discrimination in education...
Children who take tours of the landmark walk upon the building's original 19th-century floor planks and enjoy puppet shows with three-feet puppets portraying escaped slaves Harriet Tubman and Lewis Hayden, all recreating the Underground Railroad...
...landmark talks began shortly after the tiny Liggett Group struck a separate deal with 22 state attorneys general last month, breaking ranks and opening the way for the tobacco industry to put the legal onslaught--and $600 million in annual legal fees--behind it. "These cases were a gun to their heads," says John Coale, lead counsel for a coalition representing 60 law firms suing tobacco companies, who has been participating in the talks. "Now the industry has to prove its good faith...
...coming weeks her TV alter ego--conveniently named Ellen--will also profess to being a lesbian. And, this it seems, forms the basis for all of the hoopla. In less than a month, American television will showcase the first homosexual leading lady. Hurray for another cultural landmark...
...seems that some would like to interpret Ellen's outing as a landmark event. She is being heralded as the Jackie Robinson of the gay community. In fact, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has declared a national "Come out with Ellen" day built around the consequential episode. Even the mainstream news coverage has worn a revolutionary tone: "Roll over, Ward Cleaver," proclaimed one headline. One is almost convinced by the sheer weight of the collective media reaction that this event is important to our culture...