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South African President Nelson Mandela will receive an honorary degree from the University on Friday...
...that women have a right to be on the golf course. We have shown these golf [officials] that they were hypocritical snobs. How could they raise their daughters to be doctors and lawyers and then say their daughters can't play with their brothers on Saturday morning?" Linda Brock-Nelson, 56, president of a real estate management company in Scottsdale, Ariz., joined other women members of the Paradise Valley Country Club to protest the club's restricted women's tee times. That was in 1994, and the club has since changed its policies. "I think they are a lot more...
...possibility. The press went on red alert, hoping to cover a full Jimmy Swaggart. But when the vacationing President chose to mention forgiveness--in a chapel, no less--it was in the third person and past tense. He may, in fact, have done some damage. By invoking Nelson Mandela, who did nothing to deserve his captors, Clinton suggested he had done nothing to deserve Kenneth Starr. It was as if Clinton had been fighting for freedom, rather than boffing an intern in the Oval Office...
Fifty-five years after 6,000 Harvard students watched British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receive an honorary degree in a special ceremony in Sanders Theatre, more than 10,000 Harvard students will watch as Nelson Mandela is awarded the same honor in Tercentenary Theatre Sept...
...lower courts too "there has been a vast increase in the number of summary judgments against plaintiffs" alleging age discrimination, says Eric Nelson, a New York attorney specializing in employment law. Chicago lawyer Taren adds that some courts have even interpreted employer comments such as, "This company is looking for young blood," or, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," to be innocent remarks rather than evidence of serious bias. The upshot is that if an age-discrimination case is to succeed, an employer virtually has to tell a worker in so many words, "We don't want...