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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bashing is nothing new, but what's unusual is that these students are holding their schools accountable. In 1996 Nabozny brought a groundbreaking federal lawsuit alleging that administrators hadn't done enough to protect him. A jury agreed, and the school district settled for $900,000. Four similar lawsuits have followed--McDonald filed one in October--and the U.S. Department of Education issued guidelines in March barring certain kinds of antigay harassment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAY TEENAGERS: OUT, PROUD AND VERY YOUNG | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...first point is the best place to begin. Read the trade magazines to see what the latest Intel plans are for its processors. Look in the technology section of your favorite paper to keep abreast of high-level events such as the Justice Department's lawsuit against Microsoft or Apple's purchase of PowerComputing. Really, it's more fun than it sounds, and it's free...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Becoming a Whiz With Computers | 12/2/1997 | See Source »

...attention than the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1987, at the museum's behest and with the assistance of two of its curators, Searle purchased a Degas pastel known as Landscape with Smokestacks for $850,000. Now, 10 years later, the 71-year-old philanthropist faces a major lawsuit filed by the heirs of Holocaust victims who claim that the painting was stolen from their relatives by the Nazis. "My family was murdered, their possessions destroyed or stolen," says Simon Goodman, a Los Angeles businessman who, together with his brother and aunt, is suing Searle. "These works are all that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: SAVING THE SPOILS OF WAR | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

Smith's father, Donald Smith, lost a lawsuit he filed against the hosts of the party after the judge instructed the jury that under current law the hosts were only responsible if they directly gave alcohol to Gregory...

Author: By James ALLEN Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hynes Advocates Tougher Laws For Party Hosts | 11/26/1997 | See Source »

Bradner says that while Harvard is funding its participation in Internet 2 through a NSF grant, the money has already been awarded and so will not be jeopardized by the lawsuit...

Author: By Eran A. Mukamel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: What's in a Name? | 11/25/1997 | See Source »

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