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...also caught the attention of America Online president Steve Case, whose pioneering four-year-old service has more than 300,000 subscribers. Case met last spring with assistant managing editor Walter Isaacson, and the two men subsequently hammered out a deal. Says Case: "TIME's arrival online is a landmark event in creating this new medium." I am delighted to offer this exciting service to our readers, and I look forward to seeing you all online...
Besides litigation, one seemingly effective remedy for such behavior is diversity in the ranks. Ann Hopkins, who won her battle to become a partner at the Price Waterhouse accounting firm with the help of a landmark discrimination case that reached the Supreme Court in 1989, now supervises a professional staff made up of 45% women. "None of us would put up with anything," she says...
...uniform argue that homosexuality is voluntary behavior, legitimately subject to regulation. Gays counter that they are acting as God or nature -- in other words, their genes -- intended. Says spokesman Gregory J. King of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, one of the largest gay-rights lobbying groups: "This is a landmark study that can be very helpful in increasing public support for civil rights for lesbian and gay Americans." Some legal scholars think that if gays can establish a genetic basis for sexual preference, like skin color or gender, they may persuade judges that discrimination is unconstitutional...
Ginsburg became a judge back in 1980, appointed by President Carter to the U.S. Court of Appeals, after she gained national acclaim as counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union. She had won five landmark cases before the Supreme Court and had taken a novel approach to expanding the scope of the equal-protection clause by suing on behalf of men in some cases. She argued, for instance, that widowers as well as widows were entitled to Social Security survivor payments and challenged an Oklahoma law that allowed women, but not men, to buy alcoholic beverages at 18. She also...
...This decision to have an election by April 27 introduces an element of irreversibility. It is a landmark...